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παραδόσεως (paradoseos)

παραδόσεως is an Ancient Greek form of παράδοσις, meaning “handing down, tradition”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.20·2: … , οὐδ̓ αὐτοῖς, ὡς ἔφαμεν, ἀληθοῦς ἐχομένοις σκοποῦ. Τὰ μέντοι φερόμενα παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς διὰ τὴν τῆς ἐπάνωθεν παραδόσεως ἀξιοπιστίαν τοῦτον ὑπόκειται τὸν τρόπον.

Polybius, Histories 16.22a.7: διὸ καθάπερ καὶ κατʼ ἰδίαν ἐπισημαινόμεθα τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας ἐν τοῖς ὑπομνήμασι, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον χρὴ καὶ κοινῇ τῶν πόλεων τὴν ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ ποιήσασθαι μνήμην, ὅσαι τῶν καλῶν ἐκ παραδόσεώς τι καὶ προθέσεως πράττειν εἰώθασιν.

All forms of παράδοσις (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.