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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

  • ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν ἀμπώτεων καὶ τῶν πλημμυρίδων ἡ Χάρυβδισ αὐτῷ μεμύθευται, οὐδ’ αὐτὴ παντάπασιν Ὁμήρου πλάσμα οὖσα, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἱστορουμένων περὶ τὸν Σικελικὸν πορθμὸν διεσκευασμένη. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 72:3)
  • ἐροῦσι γὰρ κἀκεῖ τοῦτο συμβαίνειν, περισπᾶσθαι δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀμπώτεων καὶ τῶν πλημμυρίδων καὶ ἐπικρύπτεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 10:18)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν πλημμυρίδων καὶ τῶν ἀμπώτεων εἰρήκασιν ἱκανῶσ Ποσειδώνιόσ τε καὶ Ἀθηνόδωροσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 24:1)
  • τά τε γὰρ ὀστρεώδη πάντα καὶ κογχοειδῆ καὶ τοῖσ πλήθεσιν ὑπερβάλλει καὶ τοῖσ μεγέθεσι καθόλου κατὰ τὴν ἔξω θάλατταν πᾶσαν, ἐνταῦθα δὲ διαφερόντωσ, ἅτε καὶ τῶν πλημμυρίδων καὶ τῶν ἀμπώτεων ἐνταῦθα αὐξομένων, ἃσ εἰκὸσ αἰτίασ εἶναι καὶ τοῦ πλήθουσ καὶ τοῦ μεγέθουσ διὰ τὴν γυμνασίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 14:2)
  • ᾗ δὴ καὶ τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη φησὶν ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ οὐκ ὀρθῶσ αἰτιᾶσθαι τὴν παραλίαν τῶν πλημμυρίδων καὶ τῶν ἀμπώτεων· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 6:8)

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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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