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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

  • ἱκανῶσ δ’ οἰόμαι καὶ διὰ τούτων φανερὸν πεποιηκέναι τὸ προκείμενον, ὅτι τῆσ Θουκυδίδου λέξεωσ κρατίστη μέν ἐστιν ἡ μετρίωσ ἐκβεβηκυῖα τὰ συνήθη καὶ τὰσ πρώτασ καὶ ἀναγκαίασ ἀρετὰσ φυλάσσουσα, χείρων δὲ ἡ λαμβάνουσα πολλὴν ἐκτροπὴν ἐκ τῶν κοινῶν ὀνομάτων τε καὶ σχημάτων εἰσ τὰ ξένα καὶ βεβιασμένα καὶ ἀνακολούθητα, δἰ ἣν οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν οὐδεμίαι τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἐπιδείκνυνται δύναμιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 492)
  • οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι σφόδρα φυλάττεσθαι καὶ δεδιέναι τὴν ἐκτροπὴν ταύτην ὀφείλομεν. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 20 2:3)
  • γενόμενοσ δὲ τῆσ ὁδοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν τὴν ἄνω φέρουσαν, ἐκείνην μὲν ἐκέλευσε προάγειν εἰσ τὸ θέατρον, αὐτὸσ δὲ χαίρειν μὲν Ἀμοιβέα, χαίρειν δὲ τοὺσ γάμουσ ἐάσασ ἀνῄει πρὸσ τὸν Ἀκροκόρινθον ἁμιλλώμενοσ παρ’ ἡλικίαν καὶ κεκλεισμένην τὴν πύλην εὑρών, ἔκοπτε τῇ βακτηρίᾳ κελεύων ἀνοίγειν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 17 4:2)
  • οἱ δὲ τοὔνομα τῆσ τροφοῦ δι’ ἀμφιβολίαν ἐπὶ τὸ μυθῶδεσ ἐκτροπὴν τῇ φήμῃ παρασχεῖν· (Plutarch, chapter 4 3:1)
  • τοιῶνδε μόχθων ἐκτροπὴν οὐδεὶσ θεῶν δύναιτ’ ἂν αὐτῷ πλὴν ἐμοῦ δεῖξαι σαφῶσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode3)

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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