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ἀποτομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποτομή

Structure: ἀποτομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)pote/mnw

Sense

  1. a cutting off

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

  • Εὐθὺσ οὖν ἦν ἀνά τε τὴν χώραν καὶ ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν, ὡσ ἕκαστόσ πῃ συνελαμβάνετο, ἀνδρολήψια αἰφνίδια πολλὰ καὶ τρόποι τῶν φόνων ποικίλοι τῶν τε κεφαλῶν ἀποτομαὶ τοῦ μισθοῦ χάριν ἐσ ἐπίδειξιν φυγαί τε ἀπρεπεῖσ καὶ σχήματα ἄτοπα ἐκ τοῦ πρὶν περιφανοῦσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 3 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a cutting off

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

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