δήλωσις

delosis

pointing out, explanation

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

Click a work to list every occurrence by Bekker number — each links into the reader.

History of Animals 1
Open History of Animals ›
Book IX 1
Chapter 31 618b9–17

618b16
Metaphysics 1
Open Metaphysics ›
Book Ε 1
Chapter 1 1025b3–1026a32

1025b16
Poetics 1
Open Poetics ›
Chapter 23 1459a17–1459b6

1459a23
Rhetoric 1
Open Rhetoric ›
Book III 1
Chapter 16 1416b16–1417b20

1416b36
Sophistical Refutations 1
Open Sophistical Refutations ›
Chapter 24 179a26–180a22

179b25

Dictionary (LSJ)

δήλωσις, εως, ἡ, A. pointing out, explanation, Th. 1.73; αἰσθήσει ἢ δηλώσει Pl. Min. 314a; ἡ τῶν ὄντων λόγῳ δ. Id. Plt. 287a; δ. ποιεῖσθαι, = δηλοῦν, Th. 4.40. 2. direction, order, ἡ τῶν ἀρχόντων δ. Pl. Lg. 942c. 3. Urim, LXXLe. 8.8. 4. interpretation, ib.Da. 2.27.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of δήλωσις — with the passages he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated, interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide. Digitisation in progress; this entry is not yet available.

‹ All lexicon entries