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ἔφεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔφεσις ἔφεσεως

Structure: ἐφεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)fi/hmi

Sense

  1. a throwing or hurling at, a shooting
  2. an appeal to another court
  3. appetite, desire

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

  • ταύτησ ἐστὶ τῆσ ἰδέασ ἥ τε πρὸσ Ἕρμωνα ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἐγγύησ ἀπολογία καὶ ἡ πρὸσ Εὐκλείδην ἀμφισβήτησισ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τοῦ χωρίου λύσεωσ καὶ ἡ ὑπὲρ Εὐφιλήτου πρὸσ τὸν Ἐρχιέων δῆμον ἔφεσισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 14 1:1)
  • ἢν δέ τισ ἄδικα δεδικάσθαι οἰήται, ἐφέσιμον ἀγωνιεῖται τὴν δίκην ἡ δὲ ἔφεσισ ἐπὶ τὸν Δία. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 12:6)
  • αἵ τε τοῖσ πενθοῦσιν ἐφέσεισ τοῦ ἀποκλαῦσαι καὶ ἀποδύρασθαι πολύ τι τῆσ λύπησ ἅμα τῷ δακρύῳ συνεξάγουσιν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 5 3:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν καὶ μέγιστον τὸ μὴ δανείζειν ἐπὶ τοῖσ σώμασιν, ἔπειτα τὸ ἐξεῖναι τῷ βουλομένῳ τιμωρεῖν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδικουμένων, τρίτον δὲ <ᾧ καὶ> μάλιστά φασιν ἰσχυκέναι τὸ πλῆθοσ, ἡ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον ἔφεσισ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 9 1:3)
  • ἔφεσισ δὲ καὶ τούτοισ ἐστὶν εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον, ἐὰν αὐτῶν ἡ βουλὴ καταγνῷ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 45 2:4)
  • καὶ πρότερον μὲν ἦν ἀποδοκιμάσαι κυρία, νῦν δὲ τούτοισ ἔφεσίσ ἐστιν εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 45 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing or hurling at

  2. appetite

Related

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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