αὔξησιν (auxesin)

αὔξησιν is an Ancient Greek form of αὔξησις, meaning “growth, increase”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 125 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.69.4: ἡσυχάζετε γάρ, μόνοι Ἑλλήνων, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, οὐ τῇ δυνάμει τινά, ἀλλὰ τῇ μελλήσει ἀμυνόμενοι, καὶ μόνοι οὐκ ἀρχομένην τὴν αὔξησιν τῶν ἐχθρῶν διπλασιουμένην δὲ καταλύοντες.

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 17.146: … οαίρεσιν, τήν τε ἐν τῷ καλῷ προκοπὴν καὶ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ καλοῦ ἀποφοίτησιν, τὰ δὲ αἰσθητὰ κατὰ γένεσιν καὶ φθοράν, αὔξησίν τε καὶ μείωσιν, καὶ τὴν κατὰ ποιότητα μεταβολὴν καὶ τοπικὴν κίνησιν, καὶ ἐκ τούτων κηρύττουσι φωναῖς ἀλαλήτοι …

All forms of αὔξησις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.