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ἀντιστροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιστροφή

Structure: ἀντιστροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from a)ntistre/fw

Sense

  1. a turning about: the antistrophe or returning of the chorus

Declension

First 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 πεπλανημένα μέτρα καὶ ἀτάκτουσ ῥυθμοὺσ ἐμπεριλαμβάνουσα καὶ μήτε ἀκολουθίαν ἐμφαίνουσα αὐτῶν μήτε ὁμοζυγίαν μήτε ἀντιστροφὴν εὔρυθμοσ μέν ἐστιν, ἐπειδὴ διαπεποίκιλταί τισιν ῥυθμοῖσ, οὐκ ἔρρυθμοσ δέ, ἐπειδὴ οὐχὶ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ οὐδὲ κατὰ τὸ αὐτό. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2520)
  • " Καὶ ἄλλαι δέ εἰσι διαφοραὶ ἀξιωμάτων καὶ μεταπτώσεισ αὐτῶν ἐξ ἀληθῶν εἰσ ψεύδη καὶ ἀντιστροφαί, περὶ ὧν ἐν τῷ πλάτει λέγομεν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 76:2)

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

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