"λιτότης" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /liː.tó.tɛːs/, /liˈto.tis/, /liˈto.tis/, /liː.tó.tɛːs/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /liˈto.te̝s/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /liˈto.tis/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /liˈto.tis/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /liˈto.tis/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From λῑτός (lītós, “plain, frugal, simple”) + -της (-tēs). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|λῑτός|-της|id2=abstract noun|t1=plain, frugal, simple}} λῑτός (lītós, “plain, frugal, simple”) + -της (-tēs) Head templates: {{grc-noun|λῑτότητος|f|third|head=λῑτότης}} λῑτότης • (lītótēs) f (genitive λῑτότητος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|λῑτότης|λῑτότητος|form=F}} Forms: λῑτότης [canonical], lītótēs [romanization], λῑτότητος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ἡ λῑτότης [nominative, singular], τὼ λῑτότητε [dual, nominative], αἱ λῑτότητες [nominative, plural], τῆς λῑτότητος [genitive, singular], τοῖν λῑτοτήτοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν λῑτοτήτων [genitive, plural], τῇ λῑτότητῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν λῑτοτήτοιν [dative, dual], ταῖς λῑτότησῐ [dative, plural], λῑτότησῐν [dative, plural], taîs lītótēsi [dative, plural], taîs lītótēsin [dative, plural], τὴν λῑτότητᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ λῑτότητε [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς λῑτότητᾰς [accusative, plural], λῑτότης [singular, vocative], λῑτότητε [dual, vocative], λῑτότητες [plural, vocative]
  1. plainness, simplicity
    Sense id: en-λιτότης-grc-noun-BeG5BdtP
  2. (grammar, rhetoric) litotes, understatement Tags: rhetoric Categories (topical): Figures of speech, Grammar
    Sense id: en-λιτότης-grc-noun-8gAiWIp3 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -της (abstract noun), Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 11 89 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -της (abstract noun): 8 92 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 6 94 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.