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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

  • ἐγράφη γὰρ δή τισ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων νόμοσ ἐξέτασιν γενέσθαι τῶν πολιτῶν κατὰ δήμουσ, τὸν δὲ ἀποψηφισθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν δημοτῶν τῆσ πολιτείασ μὴ μετέχειν, τοῖσ δὲ ἀδίκωσ ἀποψηφισθεῖσιν ἔφεσιν εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον εἶναι, προσκαλεσαμένοισ τοὺσ δημότασ, καὶ ἐὰν τὸ δεύτερον ἐξελεγχθῶσι, πεπρᾶσθαι αὐτοὺσ καὶ τὰ χρήματα εἶναι δημόσια. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 16 2:2)
  • ἑώλον μέν, ὦ Προμηθεῦ, τὴν ἔφεσιν ἀγωνιῇ καὶ ἐσ οὐδὲν δέον ὅμωσ δ’ οὖν λέγε· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 4:4)
  • χρῆσιν αὐτῶν αἱρετωτέραν ποιῶν τῆσ ὑγιείασ μᾶλλον τὴν μὲν οὐδ’ ὅλωσ αἱρετὸν ἡγούμενοσ, ἐν δὲ τῇ περὶ ἐκεῖνα πραγματείᾳ τὸ τέλοσ τιθέμενοσ καὶ ἔφεσιν ἀποφαίνων τέλοσ τῆσ τεύξεωσ, οὐ τῆσ ἐφέσεωσ τὴν τεῦξιν; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 26 15:1)
  • οὕτωσ ἐξ ἁπάντων τῶν φαινομένων, ὅπερ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐρρέθη, μαρτυρεῖται τὸ δεῖν ὑπάρχειν τοῖσ τοῦ ζῳού μορίοισ σχεδὸν ἅπασιν ἔφεσιν μέν τινα καὶ οἱο͂ν ὄρεξιν τῆσ οἰκείασ ποιότητοσ, ἀποστροφὴν δέ τινα καὶ οἱο͂ν μῖσόσ τι τῆσ ἀλλοτρίασ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 64)
  • εἰ γὰρ πάντ’ ἐνομίζετε τὰ δίκαια δυνήσεσθαι τοὺσ δημότασ διακρῖναι, οὐκ ἂν ἐδώκατε τὴν εἰσ ὑμᾶσ ἔφεσιν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 7:2)

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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