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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

a being sucked back, the ebb-tide

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἄμπωτις	ἀμπώτει	ἀμπώτεις
Genitive	ἀμπώτεως	ἀμπώτοιν	ἀμπώτεων
Dative	ἀμπώτει	ἀμπώτοιν	ἀμπώτεσιν*
Accusative	ά̓μπωτιν	ἀμπώτει	ἀμπώτεις
Vocative	ά̓μπωτι	ἀμπώτει	ἀμπώτεις

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

καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τι βραχύ, τῆσ ἀδολεσχίασ ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσησ, τοῦτο παραχρῆμα πολλαπλάσιον ἀνταποδίδωσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 2:1)
καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τι βραχύ, τῆσ ἀδολεσχίασ ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσησ, τοῦτο παραχρῆμα πολλαπλάσιον ἀνταποδίδωσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 6:1)
ὑφ’ ὧν ἐμβαλλόντων μὲν προωθουμένην ἀνοιδεῖν τὴν Ἀτλαντικὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ πατασκευάζειν τὴν πλήμμυραν, καταληγόντων δ’ ἀντιπερισπωμένην ὑποβαίνειν, ὅπερ εἶναι τὴν ἄμπωτιν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:1)
ἐσχατιὴν δὲ Λίβυσσαν ἐπιστείβων Νασαμώνων ἔρχεο καὶ παρὰ Σύρτιν, ὅπῃ νοτίῃσι θυέλλαισ ἐσ κλίσιν ἀντίπρωρον ἀνακλασθεῖσα Βορῆοσ, καὶ ψαφαρὴν ἄμπωτιν ὕπερ, ῥηγμῖνι ἁλίπλῳ ἀνδράσι δῖα θάλασσα πόρον χερσαῖον ἀνοίγει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 4, chapter 3 17:1)
Ὁ δὲ φρουρὰν μὲν Καρχηδόνι ἐπέστησε, καὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἐκέλευσε τὸ παρὰ τὴν ἄμπωτιν ἐσ ὕψοσ ἐγεῖραι· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 1:1)

ἀνατέλλω (to make to rise up or to grow up)
ὑπόψαμμος (having sand under)
ὑπόπετρος (somewhat rocky)
Πτολεμαί̈ς (Acre)
συρμός (any lengthened sweeping motion)
καύσων (burning heat)
καῦσος (burning heat)
ἄνομβρος (without rain)
δίκροτος (double-beating)
Προποντίς (the fore-sea)
σινδών (sindon)
ἀνάβασις (ascent)
ὀρύσσω (to dig)
ἐπίμαχος (that may easily be attacked)
λαῖλαψ (a tempest)
φάκελος (a bundle)
διέκπλοος (a sailing across or through)
δύσις (setting of the sun or stars)
παρήκω (to have come alongside)
ὑπέρβασις (transgression)
δύσορμος (with bad anchorage)
ῥάχις (the lower part of the back)
ἀναψύχω (to cool)
δεκαταῖος (on the tenth day)
παραρρέω (to flow beside or past)
διείργω (to keep asunder)
περιρρέω (to flow round)
ἄπεδος (even)
Ἀραβικός (Arabian)
μῆνιγξ (membrane)

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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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