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ἐκμαρτυρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκμαρτυρία

Structure: ἐκμαρτυρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kmarture/w

Sense

  1. the deposition of a witness

Declension

First 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

  • ἀκοὴν δ’ οὐκ ἐῶσι ζῶντοσ μαρτυρεῖν, ἀλλὰ τεθνεῶτοσ, τῶν δὲ ἀδυνάτων καὶ ὑπερορίων ἐκμαρτυρίαν γεγραμμένην ἐν τῷ γραμματείῳ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 10:1)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἐπισκήψεωσ τήν τε μαρτυρίαν καὶ ἐκμαρτυρίαν ἀγωνίζεσθαι ἅμα, ἵν’ ἐὰν μὲν ἀναδέχηται ὁ ἐκμαρτυρήσασ, ἐκεῖνοσ ὑπόδικοσ ᾖ τῶν ψευδομαρτυρίων, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀναδέχηται, οἱ μαρτυρήσαντεσ τὴν ἐκμαρτυρίαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 10:2)
  • ἀκοὴν εἶναι μαρτυρεῖν τεθνεῶτοσ, ἐκμαρτυρίαν δὲ ὑπερορίου καὶ ἀδυνάτου. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 12:1)
  • καὶ ὅτι ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ, λαβέ μοι τὰ ψηφίσματα, καὶ τὴν ἐκμαρτυρίαν ἀνάγνωθι τὴν Ἀριστοδήμου, καὶ κάλει πρὸσ οὓσ ἐξεμαρτύρησεν, ἵν’ εἰδῶσιν οἱ δικασταί, τίσ ὁ Φιλοκράτουσ ἑταῖροσ, καὶ τίσ ὁ τὰσ δωρεὰσ Ἀριστοδήμῳ φάσκων πείσειν δοῦναι τὸν δῆμον. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 192)

Synonyms

  1. the deposition of a witness

Related

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

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