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ἀποτροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποτροπή

Structure: ἀποτροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)potre/pw

Sense

  1. a turning away, averting
  2. a hindering, prevention
  3. desertion of one's party

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀποτροπή ἀποτροπᾱ́ ἀποτροπαί
Genitive ἀποτροπῆς ἀποτροπαῖν ἀποτροπῶν
Dative ἀποτροπῇ ἀποτροπαῖν ἀποτροπαῖς
Accusative ἀποτροπήν ἀποτροπᾱ́ ἀποτροπᾱ́ς
Vocative ἀποτροπή ἀποτροπᾱ́ ἀποτροπαί

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

  • συμβουλῆσ δὲ τὸ μὲν προτροπή, τὸ δὲ ἀποτροπή· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 2:3)
  • τίσ οὖν ἐστιν ἀποτροπὴ τῶν τοιούτων λόγων, ἐγὼ προερῶ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 201 1:1)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἀξιῶσι μὴ πολεμεῖν <ἢ> μὴ συμμαχεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν, τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶδόσ ἐστιν ἀποτροπή. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 92:3)
  • τῆσ ἄρα ῥητορείασ ἐστὶ τὸ μὲν ἐγκώμιον, τὸ δὲ ψόγοσ, τὸ δὲ προτροπή, τὸ δὲ ἀποτροπή, τὸ δὲ κατηγορία, τὸ δὲ ἀπολογία. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 93:5)
  • Σαβίνῳ μὲν οὖν εὐκτὸν ἀπιέναι μετὰ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, πιστεύειν δ’ οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν διὰ τὰ πεπραγμένα καὶ τὸ λίαν εὔγνωμον τῶν πολεμίων ἐπ’ ἀποτροπῇ τοῦ κατασταθησομένου εἶχεν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸν Οὐάρον ἥξειν προσδοκῶν ὑπέμενε τὴν πολιορκίαν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 320:1)

Synonyms

  1. a turning away

  2. a hindering

  3. desertion of one's party

Similar forms

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

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