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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

  • καὶ λαβὼν οἱᾶ δέδρακασ ἢ τὰσ πόλεισ, αἷσ τοὺσ θεράποντασ καὶ χρήστασ ἐπέστησασ ἐλευθερίασ καὶ χρεῶν ἀποκοπαῖσ, ἢ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, ὧν μιᾷ προφάσει χιλίουσ καὶ ἑξακοσίουσ διέφθειρασ, ἢ Γαλατῶν τοὺσ τετράρχασ, οὓσ ὁμοδιαίτουσ ἔχων ἀπέκτεινασ, ἢ τὸ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν γένοσ, οὓσ μιᾶσ ἡμέρασ σὺν βρέφεσι καὶ μητράσιν ἔκτεινάσ τε καὶ κατεπόντωσασ, οὐκ ἀποσχόμενοσ οὐδὲ τῶν ἐσ τὰ ἱερὰ συμφυγόντων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 7:3)

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

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