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ἀποκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποκοπή

Structure: ἀποκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)poko/ptw

Sense

  1. a cutting off, tabulae novae, a cancelling
  2. apocope, the cutting off letters from

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

  • τὰσ μὲν δίκασ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, καὶ τὰσ διαίτασ ἐποιήσατε κυρίασ εἶναι, ὁπόσαι ἐν δημοκρατουμένῃ τῇ πόλει ἐγένοντο, ὅπωσ μήτε χρεῶν ἀποκοπαὶ εἰε͂ν μήτε δίκαι ἀνάδικοι γίγνοιντο, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἰδίων συμβολαίων αἱ πράξεισ εἰε͂ν· (Andocides, Speeches, 146:1)
  • ἔστι γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ συνθήκαισ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τοὺσ συνεδρεύοντασ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῇ κοινῇ φυλακῇ τεταγμένουσ ὅπωσ ἐν ταῖσ κοινωνούσαισ πόλεσι τῆσ εἰρήνησ μὴ γίγνωνται θάνατοι καὶ φυγαὶ παρὰ τοὺσ κειμένουσ ταῖσ πόλεσι νόμουσ, μηδὲ χρημάτων δημεύσεισ, μηδὲ γῆσ ἀναδασμοί, μηδὲ χρεῶν ἀποκοπαί, μηδὲ δούλων ἀπελευθερώσεισ ἐπὶ νεωτερισμῷ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 19:2)
  • Αἱ δὲ ἀποκοπαὶ ἢ ἐν ἄρθρῳ, ἢ κατὰ τὰ ὀστέα, μὴ ἄνω, ἀλλ’ ἢ παρὰ τῷ ποδὶ, ἢ παρὰ τῇ χειρὶ, ἐγγὺσ περιγίνονται, ἢν μὴ αὐτίκα μάλα λειποθυμίῃ ἀπόλωνται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 34.1)

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

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