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ἐκποίησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκποίησις ἐκποίησεως

Structure: ἐκποιησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kpoie/w

Sense

  1. a putting forth, emission

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

  • νῦν δ’ ἐπεὰν θορνύωνται κατὰ ζεύγεα καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ ᾖ ὁ ἔρσην τῇ ἐκποιήσι, ἀπιεμένου αὐτοῦ τὴν γονὴν ἡ θήλεα ἅπτεται τῆσ δειρῆσ, καὶ ἐμφῦσα οὐκ ἀνιεῖ πρὶν ἂν διαφάγῃ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 109 2:2)

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

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