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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

  • καὶ οὐδὲ ταύτην τὴν διήγησιν ἁπλῶσ πωσ συστρέψασ καὶ ἀκατασκευάστωσ τίθησιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταύτην μακροτέραν οὖσαν ἀποτομαῖσ τισι διαλαμβάνει καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον εἶδοσ μάρτυρασ ἀναβιβάζεται καὶ προκλήσεισ ἀναγινώσκει καὶ συνθήκασ παρέχεται τεκμηρίοισ τε καὶ σημείοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων ἐλέγχοισ ἅπασι χρῆται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:1)

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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