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ἀντέμφασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντέμφασις

Structure: ἀντεμφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mfai/nw

Sense

  1. difference of appearance

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

  • ἡ δὲ τούτῳ τε καὶ τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ, καίτοι ἥ γε τῶν Ιἀπύγων ἄκρα παρεμπίπτουσα καὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν δικόρυφον ποιοῦσα ἔχει τινὰ ἀντέμφασιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 4 16:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ διὰ πεδίων ἰοῦσι μεγάλων, οἱο͂ν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων, ἢ διὰ πελάγουσ παρίσταται τὰ πρόσω πάντα καὶ τὰ κατόπιν καὶ ἐκ πλαγίων ἐπίπεδα, καὶ οὐδεμίαν ἀντέμφασιν παρέχει πρὸσ τὰ οὐράνια καὶ τὰσ τοῦ ἡλίου κινήσεισ καὶ σχέσεισ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων, οὕτω καὶ γεωγραφοῦσιν παρίστασθαι ἀεὶ δεῖ τὰ ὅμοια. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. difference of appearance

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

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