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ἐκτροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκτροπή

Structure: ἐκτροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)ktre/pw

Sense

  1. a turning off or aside
  2. a turning aside, escape, from
  3. a place to which one turns from, road, a resting-place

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

  • ὑμᾶσ δ’ ἰόντασ τοῖσιν ἐν τείχει χρεὼν Πριάμῳ τε καὶ γέρουσι σημῆναι νεκροὺσ θάπτειν κελεύθου λεωφόρου πρὸσ ἐκτροπάσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:38)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦνπερ ἕνεκα τήνδε τὴν σκευὴν ἔχων ἦλθον κατὰ σὴν μίμησιν, ἵνα μοι τοὺσ ξένουσ τοὺσ σοὺσ φράσειασ, εἰ δεοίμην, οἷσι σὺ ἐχρῶ τόθ’, ἡνίκ’ ἐπὶ τὸν Κέρβερον, τούτουσ φράσον μοι, λιμένασ ἀρτοπώλια πορνεῖ’ ἀναπαύλασ ἐκτροπὰσ κρήνασ ὁδοὺσ πόλεισ διαίτασ πανδοκευτρίασ, ὅπου κόρεισ ὀλίγιστοι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 4:14)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὸ περὶ τοὺσ ψόγουσ καὶ τὰσ καταιτιάσεισ γένοσ ἐπισφαλέσ ἐστι καὶ παρέχον ἐκτροπὰσ τοῖσ περὶ δόξαν νοσοῦσιν. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 201)
  • ἅμα δὲ ἡμέρᾳ τῶν πυλῶν ἀνοιχθεισῶν καὶ τῆσ σάλπιγγοσ ἐγκελευσαμένησ, δρόμῳ καὶ ἀλαλαγμῷ προσπεσὼν τοῖσ πολεμίοισ εὐθὺσ ἐτρέψατο, καὶ κατεῖχε διώκων ᾗ μάλιστα φεύγειν ὑπενόει τὸν Ἀρίστιππον, ἐκτροπὰσ πολλὰσ τῶν χωρίων ἐχόντων. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 29 3:1)
  • ὥσπερ οὖν ἐν τοῖσ γυμνικοῖσ ἀγῶσιν ὁρᾶτε τοὺσ πύκτασ περὶ τῆσ στάσεωσ ἀλλήλοισ διαγωνιζομένουσ, οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖσ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ περὶ τῆσ στάσεωσ αὐτῷ τοῦ λόγου μάχεσθε, καὶ μὴ ἐᾶτε αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ παρανόμου περιίστασθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐγκαθήμενοι καὶ ἐνεδρεύοντεσ ἐν τῇ ἀκροάσει, εἰσελαύνετε αὐτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ τοῦ παρανόμου λόγουσ, καὶ τὰσ ἐκτροπὰσ αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων ἐπιτηρεῖτε. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 2061)

Synonyms

  1. a turning off or aside

  2. a turning aside

  3. a place to which one turns from

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

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