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ἄπωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπωσις

Structure: ἀπωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)pwqe/w

Sense

  1. a driving away

Declension

Third 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

  • εἰ γάρ μ’ ἀπώσει, σὺν κακῷ μέτει πάλιν. (Sophocles, episode 6:9)
  • εἰ δ’ αὖ σιωπήσεσθε, καί τισ ἢ φίλου δείσασ ἀπώσει τοὔποσ ἢ χαὐτοῦ τόδε, ἃκ τῶνδε δράσω, ταῦτα χρὴ κλύειν ἐμοῦ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode11)
  • οὐδ’ ὅ γε πρὶν Δαναοῖσιν ἀεικέα λοιγὸν ἀπώσει πρίν γ’ ἀπὸ πατρὶ φίλῳ δόμεναι ἑλικώπιδα κούρην ἀπριάτην ἀνάποινον, ἄγειν θ’ ἱερὴν ἑκατόμβην ἐσ Χρύσην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 13:3)

Synonyms

  1. a driving away

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

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