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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

  • τῇ δὲ ἀμπώτει τὸν ἐναντίον, ὃν ἐξιόντα καλεῖσθαι, ταῖσ μεσουρανήσεσι τῆσ σελήνησ ἀμφοτέραισ ἐναρχόμενον, καθάπερ αἱ ἀμπώτεισ, ταῖσ δὲ συνάψεσι ταῖσ πρὸσ τὰσ ἀνατολὰσ καὶ δύσεισ παυόμενον. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 22:10)

Related

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

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