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ἀνάκρουσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάκρουσις

Structure: ἀνακρουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pushing back, backing water

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀνάκρουσις ἀνακρούσει ἀνακρούσεις
Genitive ἀνακρούσεως ἀνακρούσοιν ἀνακρούσεων
Dative ἀνακρούσει ἀνακρούσοιν ἀνακρούσεσιν*
Accusative ἀνάκρουσιν ἀνακρούσει ἀνακρούσεις
Vocative ἀνάκρουσι ἀνακρούσει ἀνακρούσεις

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

  • Ἀσιναῖοσ δὲ ἐτύγχανε σὺν τοῖσ ἑταίροισ καθεζόμενοσ καὶ τὰ ὅπλα παρέκειτο αὐτοῖσ "ἄνδρεσ, φησί, χρεμετισμόσ μοι ἵππων προσέπεσεν οὐ φορβάδων, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂σ γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀνδρῶν αὐτοῖσ ἐπιβεβηκότων, ἐπεὶ καί τινοσ ἀνακρούσεωσ αἰσθάνομαι χαλινῶν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 379:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pushing back

Similar forms

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

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