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ἐφόρμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφόρμησις ἐφόρμησεως

Structure: ἐφορμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)forme/w

Sense

  1. a lying at anchor so as to watch, blockading, a means of so doing

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐφόρμησις ἐφορμήσει ἐφορμήσεις
Genitive ἐφορμήσεως ἐφορμήσοιν ἐφορμήσεων
Dative ἐφορμήσει ἐφορμήσοιν ἐφορμήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐφόρμησιν ἐφορμήσει ἐφορμήσεις
Vocative ἐφόρμησι ἐφορμήσει ἐφορμήσεις

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

  • ἦν δὲ τοῖσ μὲν ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ ἀναχώρησίσ τε καὶ ἐφόρμησισ, ὅτε βούλοιντο, καὶ σκαφῶν ἑτέρων ἀλλαγὴ παρὰ μέροσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 9 5:9)

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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