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ἐφετμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφετμή

Structure: ἐφετμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)fi/hmi

Sense

  1. a command, behest

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐφετμή ἐφετμᾱ́ ἐφετμαί
Genitive ἐφετμῆς ἐφετμαῖν ἐφετμῶν
Dative ἐφετμῇ ἐφετμαῖν ἐφετμαῖς
Accusative ἐφετμήν ἐφετμᾱ́ ἐφετμᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐφετμή ἐφετμᾱ́ ἐφετμαί

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

  • φυλάξομαι δὲ τάσδε μεμνῆσθαι σέθεν κεδνὰσ ἐφετμάσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 1:14)
  • τᾶσ ἄπο θεόμοροι νίσοντ’ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀοιδαί, ᾧ τινι, κραίνων ἐφετμὰσ Ἡρακλέοσ προτέρασ, ἀτρεκὴσ Ἑλλανοδίκασ γλεφάρων Αἰτωλὸσ ἀνὴρ ὑψόθεν ἀμφὶ κόμαισι βάλῃ γλαυκόχροα κόσμον ἐλαίασ· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 3 3:2)
  • ὅμοια χέρσον καὶ θάλασσαν ἐκπερῶν, σῴζων ἐφετμὰσ Λοξίου χρηστηρίουσ, πρόσειμι δῶμα καὶ βρέτασ τὸ σόν, θεά. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:16)
  • εἴτ’ οὖν κομίζειν δόξα νικήσει φίλων, εἴτ’ οὖν μέτοικον, εἰσ τὸ πᾶν ἀεὶ ξένον, θάπτειν, ἐφετμὰσ τάσδε πόρθμευσον πάλιν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode17)
  • ἤτοι ὁ μέν σφεων πεύθετο ναυτιλίησ ἄνυσιν, Πελίαό τ’ ἐφετμάσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 17:8)

Synonyms

  1. a command

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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