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ἐκκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκκοπή

Structure: ἐκκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kko/ptw

Sense

  1. a cutting out

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐκκοπή ἐκκοπᾱ́ ἐκκοπαί
Genitive ἐκκοπῆς ἐκκοπαῖν ἐκκοπῶν
Dative ἐκκοπῇ ἐκκοπαῖν ἐκκοπαῖς
Accusative ἐκκοπήν ἐκκοπᾱ́ ἐκκοπᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐκκοπή ἐκκοπᾱ́ ἐκκοπαί

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

  • καὶ παραυτίκα μὲν ὡσ τεθνεῶτοσ ἦν λόγοσ ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ χαλεπῶσ δὲ καὶ πολυπόνωσ τὸν ὀϊστὸν ἐκπρισάντων ξύλινον ὄντα, καὶ τοῦ θώρακοσ οὕτω μόλισ ἀπολυθέντοσ, περὶ τὴν ἐκκοπὴν ἐγίνοντο τῆσ ἀκίδοσ ἐνδεδυκυίασ ἑνὶ τῶν ὀστέων. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 63 5:1)
  • ἐν μὲν οὖν τῷ πρὸ τῆσ Πύδνησ πεδίῳ Ῥωμαῖοι Περσέα καταπολεμήσαντεσ καθεῖλον τὴν τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλείαν, ἐν δὲ τῷ πρὸ τῆσ Μεθώνησ πεδίῳ γενέσθαι συνέβη Φιλίππῳ τῷ Ἀμύντου τὴν ἐκκοπὴν τοῦ δεξιοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ καταπελτικῷ βέλει κατὰ τὴν πολιορκίαν τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 52:8)

Synonyms

  1. a cutting out

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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