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ἄμπωτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμπωτις

Structure: ἀμπωτι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)napi/nomai, for a)na/pwtis

Sense

  1. a being sucked back, the ebb-tide

Declension

Third 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

  • Καθ’ ὅλην δὲ τὴν τῆσ Ἐρυθρᾶσ παραλίαν κατὰ βυθοῦ φύεται δένδρα ὅμοια δάφνῃ καὶ ἐλαίᾳ, ταῖσ μὲν ἀμπώτεσιν ὅλα ὑπερφανῆ γινόμενα, ταῖσ δὲ πλημμυρίσιν ἔσθ’ ὅτε ὅλα καλυπτόμενα, καὶ ταῦτα τῆσ ὑπερκειμένησ γῆσ ἀδένδρου οὔσησ, ὥστε ἐπιτείνεσθαι τὸ παράδοξον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 3 12:1)
  • συνάγουσι δὲ ταῖσ ἀμπώτεσιν οἱ ἰχθυοφάγοι τοὺσ ἰχθῦσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 26:5)

Related

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

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