Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀμφίβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίβασις

Structure: ἀμφιβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)mfibai/nw

Sense

  1. a going round, encompassing

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀμφίβασις ἀμφιβάσει ἀμφιβάσεις
Genitive ἀμφιβάσεως ἀμφιβάσοιν ἀμφιβάσεων
Dative ἀμφιβάσει ἀμφιβάσοιν ἀμφιβάσεσιν*
Accusative ἀμφίβασιν ἀμφιβάσει ἀμφιβάσεις
Vocative ἀμφίβασι ἀμφιβάσει ἀμφιβάσεις

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

  • δεῖσε δ’ ὅ γ’ ἀμφίβασιν κρατερὴν Τρώων ἀγερώχων, οἳ πολλοί τε καὶ ἐσθλοὶ ἐφέστασαν ἔγχε’ ἔχοντεσ, οἵ ἑ μέγαν περ ἐόντα καὶ ἴφθιμον καὶ ἀγαυὸν ὦσαν ἀπὸ σφείων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 63:13)

Synonyms

  1. a going round

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION