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ἐφορμή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: ephormē

Principal Part: ἐφορμή

Structure: ἐφορμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a way of attack, room, to attack
  2. an assault, attack

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐφορμή ἐφορμά ἐφορμαί
Genitive ἐφορμῆς ἐφορμαῖν ἐφορμῶν
Dative ἐφορμῇ ἐφορμαῖν ἐφορμαῖς
Accusative ἐφορμήν ἐφορμά ἐφορμάς
Vocative ἐφορμή ἐφορμά ἐφορμαί

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

  • ἄπελθ, ἐρῶ γὰρ καὶ πρὸ τῶνδε, μηδέ με φύλασς ἐφορμῶν ἔνθα χρὴ ναίειν ἐμέ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:9)
  • αὐε῀ δ ἄνασσαν νυκτιπόλον, χθονίην, εὐαντέα δοῦναι ἐφορμήν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:14)
  • ἡμετέρῃ δ ἐπερείδεται Ἑλλὰς ἐφορμῇ, ἠὲ κατηφείην, ἢ καὶ μέγα κῦδος ἀρέσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 4:14)
  • ὁ γὰρ Κάσανδρος εἰς Πύδναν τῆς Μακεδονίας συγκεκλεικὼς Ὀλυμπιάδα προσβολὰς μὲν τοῖς τείχεσιν ἠδυνάτει ποιεῖσθαι διὰ τοὺς χειμῶνας, περιστρατοπεδεύσας δὲ τὴν πόλιν καὶ χάρακα βαλόμενος ἀπὸ θαλάσσης εἰς θάλασσαν, ἔτι δὲ ἐφορμῶν τῷ λιμένι πάντα βουλόμενον ἐπικουρῆσαι διεκώλυεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 49 1:2)
  • μία δ οἰή γίγνετ ἐφορμή. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. an assault

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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