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ἐφεδρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφεδρεία

Structure: ἐφεδρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)fedreu/w

Sense

  1. a sitting upon.
  2. a sitting by, waiting for one's turn, a lying in wait

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐφεδρεία ἐφεδρείᾱ ἐφεδρεῖαι
Genitive ἐφεδρείᾱς ἐφεδρείαιν ἐφεδρειῶν
Dative ἐφεδρείᾱͅ ἐφεδρείαιν ἐφεδρείαις
Accusative ἐφεδρείᾱν ἐφεδρείᾱ ἐφεδρείᾱς
Vocative ἐφεδρείᾱ ἐφεδρείᾱ ἐφεδρεῖαι

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

  • Βροῦτοσ δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἐπιούσησ ὁρῶν τὰσ ἐφεδρείασ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐπιμενούσασ, ἔχων οὐ πλήρη τέσσαρα τέλη συναναβάντα οἱ, αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐπελθεῖν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἐφυλάξατο, τοὺσ δὲ ἡγουμένουσ αὐτῶν, αἰδουμένουσ τε τὸ ἁμάρτημα καὶ μετανοοῦντασ, ἔπεμπεν ἀποπειράσοντασ αὐτῶν, εἰ ἐθελήσουσιν ὤσασθαι διὰ τῶν ἐφεδρειῶν καὶ ἀναλαβεῖν τὰ ἴδια, ἔτι φυλασσόμενα ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων ὑπολελειμμένων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 17 2:1)
  • καὶ τάχα ἄν τι ἐξείργαστο αὐτοῖσ μετὰ ἀπονοίασ, εἰ μή, γνωσθέντοσ οὐ πολλὰ εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα μηχανήματα, οἱ ἄριστοι τῶν Καίσαροσ ἐφεδρειῶν ἀκμῆτεσ ἐπήγοντο κεκμηκόσι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 4 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. a sitting upon

  2. a sitting by

Related

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

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