ἀπόφασιν (apophasin)

ἀπόφασιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπόφασις, meaning “decision, statement, denial”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.61: … ζῴων τὰ μέν ἐστι λογικά, τὰ δὲ ἄλογα. ἀντιδιαίρεσις δέ ἐστι γένους εἰς εἶδος τομὴ κατὰ τοὐναντίον, ὡς ἂν κατʼ ἀπόφασιν, οἷον Τῶν ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστιν ἀγαθά, τὰ δʼ οὐκ ἀγαθά. ὑποδιαίρεσις δέ ἐστι διαίρεσις ἐπὶ διαιρέσει, οἷον Τῶν ὄ …

Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 14: … ιεῖν ὧν ἂν ὁμολογήσῃ τις, ἀπʼ ἐκείνης τῆς ἡμέρας, ἀφʼ ἧς ὡμολόγησεν ἐπί τε τὰς διαλύσεις ἀπαντήσεσθαι καὶ τὴν ἀπόφασίν μοι τὴν αὑτοῦ δώσειν καὶ τὴν παρʼ ἐμοῦ λήψεσθαι, οὐδεπώποτʼ ἀπήντησεν· ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ μὲν ἐπειδὴ τοῦτον ἑώρων οὐ πρ …

All forms of ἀπόφασις (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.