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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

  • δεῖ γὰρ αὐτὴν ἀνευρεῖν, καὶ χωρὶσ ἀφελόντασ ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἰδέαν αὐτῇ μίαν ἐπισφραγίσασθαι, καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ἐκτροπαῖσ ἓν ἄλλο εἶδοσ ἐπισημηναμένουσ πάσασ τὰσ ἐπιστήμασ ὡσ οὔσασ δύο εἴδη διανοηθῆναι τὴν ψυχὴν ἡμῶν ποιῆσαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 9:4)
  • τὰσ δὲ οἰκήσεισ ἔχουσιν οὐκ ἄπωθεν τῆσ θαλάττησ παρὰ τὰσ ῥαχίασ, καθ’ ἅσ εἰσιν οὐ μόνον βαθεῖαι κοιλάδεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ φάραγγεσ ἀνώμαλοι καὶ στενοὶ παντελῶσ αὐλῶνεσ σκολιαῖσ ἐκτροπαῖσ ὑπὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ διειλημμένοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 15 3:1)

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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