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ἀπόχωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόχωσις

Structure: ἀποχωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poxw/nnumi

Sense

  1. the damming up

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀπόχωσις ἀποχώσει ἀποχώσεις
Genitive ἀποχώσεως ἀποχώσοιν ἀποχώσεων
Dative ἀποχώσει ἀποχώσοιν ἀποχώσεσιν*
Accusative ἀπόχωσιν ἀποχώσει ἀποχώσεις
Vocative ἀπόχωσι ἀποχώσει ἀποχώσεις

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

  • τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ παντάπασι τοὺσ Πάρθουσ ἀπεγνωκότοσ Ἀντωνιου καὶ βαδίζοντοσ ἀνειμένωσ διὰ τὸ θαρρεῖν, ἰδὼν ὁ Μάρδοσ ἀπόχωσιν ἐμβολῆσ ποταμοῦ νεωστὶ διεσπασμένην καὶ τὸ ῥεῦμα πολὺ πρὸσ τὴν ὁδόν, ᾗ πορευτέον ἦν, ἐκχεόμενον, συνῆκεν ὅτι τῶν Πάρθων ἔργον εἰή τοῦτο δυσκολίασ ἕνεκα καὶ διατριβῆσ ἐμποδὼν αὐτοῖσ τὸν ποταμὸν τιθεμένων, καὶ τὸν Ἀντώνιον ὁρᾶν ἐκέλευε καὶ προσέχειν, ὡσ τῶν πολεμίων ἐγγὺσ ὄντων. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 41 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. the damming up

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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