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ἐκφορά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκφορά

Structure: ἐκφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)kfe/rw

Sense

  1. a carrying out
  2. a running away

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐκφορά ἐκφορᾱ́ ἐκφοραί
Genitive ἐκφορᾶς ἐκφοραῖν ἐκφορῶν
Dative ἐκφορᾷ ἐκφοραῖν ἐκφοραῖς
Accusative ἐκφορᾱ́ν ἐκφορᾱ́ ἐκφορᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐκφορᾱ́ ἐκφορᾱ́ ἐκφοραί

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐκφορά. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:3)
  • πέμπτην ἔθυον ἡμέραν οἱ Τήνιοι πολλοὶ παρόντεσ, πλοῦν πολὺν πεπλευκότεσ, λεπτὸν ἔριφον καὶ μικρόν, οὐκ ἦν ἐκφορὰ Λύκῳ κρεῶν τότ’ οὐδὲ τῷ διδασκάλῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 24 3:3)
  • "ἕτερον, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία νεανίσκου τινὸσ ἦν ἐκφορὰ καὶ προὔπεμπεν ἡ πόλισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 1:3)
  • τὸν δεύτερον δὲ τόνδε πενθητήριον οὐ γὰρ παρὼν ᾤμωξα σόν, πάτερ, μόρον οὐδ’ ἐξέτεινα χεῖρ’ ἐπ’ ἐκφορᾷ νεκροῦ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:10)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐνόμιζον ἁγνοὺσ οὐδὲ κατεμείγνυσαν ἑαυτοῖσ οὐδ’ εἰών ἱεροῖσ πλησιάζειν, οἷσ ἐκφορὰ γεγόνει καὶ τάφοσ ὡσ τεθνηκόσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 5 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a carrying out

  2. a running away

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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