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ἀντέμφασις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: antemphasis

Principal Part: ἀντέμφασις

Structure: ἀντεμφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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, οἱο῀ν 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)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ πελαγίζων ἢ ὁδεύων διὰ χώρας πεδιάδος κοιναῖς τισι φαντασίαις ἄγεται, καθ ἃς καὶ ὁ ἀπαίδευτος καὶ ὁ πολιτικὸς ἐνεργεῖ ταὐτά, ἄπειρος ὢν τῶν οὐρανίων καὶ τὰς πρὸς ταῦτα ἀντεμφάσεις ἀγνοῶν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 2:5)

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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