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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔφεσις ἐφέσει ἐφέσεις
Genitive ἐφέσεως έ̓φουιν ἐφέσεων
Dative ἐφέσει έ̓φουιν ἐφέσεσιν*
Accusative έ̓φεσιν ἐφέσει ἐφέσεις
Vocative έ̓φεσι ἐφέσει ἐφέσεις

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

  • 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)
  • εἰ τοῦτ’ ἔστ’ ἀδίκημ’, ἀδικῶ, αἵ τε τοῖσ πενθοῦσιν ἐφέσεισ τοῦ ἀποκλαῦσαι καὶ ἀποδύρασθαι πολύ τι τῆσ λύπησ ἅμα τῷ δακρύῳ συνεξάγουσιν ὁ δὲ θυμὸσ ἐκριπίζεται μᾶλλον οἷσ πράττουσι καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ ἐν αὐτῷ καθεστῶτεσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 53)
  • αἱ γὰρ σφοδραὶ περὶ τὰ πράγματα πτοῖαι καὶ παρ’ ἀξίαν ἐφέσεισ καὶ διώξεισ ἢ πάλιν ἀποστροφαὶ καὶ διαβολαὶ τὰσ πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐγγεννῶσιν ὑποψίασ καὶ δυσκολίασ, ὑφ’ ὧν τὰ μὲν ἀποστερεῖσθαι τοῖσ δὲ περιπίπτειν δοκοῦμεν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 11:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅσα ταῖσ ἀρχαῖσ ἔταξε κρίνειν, ὁμοίωσ καὶ περὶ ἐκείνων εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον ἐφέσεισ ἔδωκε τοῖσ βουλομένοισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 2:6)

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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