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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

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)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ τὰ σκάφη Πομπηίῳ μὲν βραχύτερα καὶ κοῦφα καὶ ὀξέα ἐσ τὰσ ἐφορμήσεισ τε καὶ περίπλουσ, καίσαρι δὲ μείζω καὶ βαρύτερα καὶ παρ’ αὐτὸ καὶ βραδύτερα, βιαιότερα δὲ ὅμωσ ἐμπεσεῖν καὶ τρωθῆναι δυσπαθέστερα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 10:5)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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