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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

  • δανεισάμενοι γὰρ οὗτοι συνεπρίαντο πολλὴν χώραν, καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολὺ τῆσ τῶν χρεῶν ἀποκοπῆσ γενομένησ ἐπλούτουν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 6 2:3)
  • πάλιν δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἀποκοπῆσ τῶν χρεῶν καὶ τῶν δουλευόντων μὲν πρότερον, ἐλευθερωθέντων δὲ διὰ τὴν σεισάχθειαν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 12 4:1)
  • πλὴν τὰ μὲν μακρὰ καὶ τῶν διχρόνων ἃ μακρῶσ λέγεται τεταμένον λαμβάνει καὶ διηνεκῆ τὸν αὐλὸν τοῦ πνεύματοσ, τὰ δὲ βραχέα ἢ βραχέωσ λεγόμενα ἐξ ἀποκοπῆσ τε καὶ μιᾷ πληγῇ πνεύματοσ καὶ τῆσ ἀρτηρίασ ἐπὶ βραχὺ κινηθείσησ ἐκφέρεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1419)
  • πάλιν δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἀποκοπῆσ τῶν χρεῶν καὶ τῶν δουλευόντων μὲν πρότερον ἐλευθερωθέντων δὲ διὰ τὴν σεισάχθειαν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , <*/g Ia/mbwn>3)
  • καὶ λυπηθεὶσ διὰ τὸ ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτὸν τῆσ στρατηγίασ τῆσ τῶν Ἑρμῶν ἀποκοπῆσ ἕνεκα, καὶ ἀποστὰσ πρὸσ Τισαφέρνην τὸν Πέρσην καὶ πολέμου αἴτιοσ γενόμενοσ Ἀθηναίοισ, πάλιν αὐτοῖσ εὔνουσ ἐγένετο. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section7)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἐν νῷ λαβὼν τὰ ὀφλήματα κουφίσαι καὶ τὴν σεισάχθειαν ̔ τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ὑποκόρισμα χρεῶν ἀποκοπῆσ̓ εἰσενεγκεῖν ἐκοινώσατο τοῖσ φίλοισ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 13 12:2)

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

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