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Ὑπερείη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὑπερείη

Structure: Ὑπερει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. high-land

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὕστερον δὲ τῶν περὶ Ἄνθον καὶ Ὑπέραν αὐτόθι κατοικούντων, Ἀνθηδονίαν καὶ Ὑπέρειαν ἐκάλουν τὴν νῆσον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 19 1:2)
  • ὕστερον δὲ τῶν περὶ Ἄνθην καὶ Ὑπέρην αὐτόθι κατοικούντων, Ἀνθηδονίαν καὶ Ὑπέρειαν ἐκάλουν τὴν νῆσον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 19 2:1)
  • οἳ δ’ ἔχον Ὀρμένιον, οἵ τε κρήνην Ὑπέρειαν, οἵ τ’ ἔχον Ἀστέριον Τιτάνοιό τε λευκὰ κάρηνα, τῶν ἦρχ’ Εὐρύπυλοσ Εὐαίμονοσ ἀγλαὸσ υἱόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 74:1)
  • τούτουσ δὲ εἶναι Ποσειδῶνοσ καὶ Ἀλκυόνησ Ἄτλαντοσ θυγατρόσ, καὶ πόλεισ αὐτοὺσ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ φασὶν Ὑπέρειάν τε καὶ Ἄνθειαν οἰκίσαι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 12:2)
  • ἀποθανόντοσ γὰρ Τροίζηνοσ Πιτθεὺσ <ἐσ> τὴν νῦν πόλιν συναγαγὼν τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ὠνόμασεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Τροίζηνα, συλλαβὼν <Ὑπέρειάν τε> καὶ Ἄνθ<ει>αν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 13:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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