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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

  • ἡ δὲ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ἐκτροπή, καθ’ ἣν αἱ Πλειάδεσ λέγονται Πέλειαι καὶ Πελειάδεσ, παρὰ πολλοῖσ ἐστι τῶν ποιητῶν, πρώτη δὲ Μοιρὼ ἡ Βυζαντία καλῶσ ἐδέξατο τὸν νοῦν τῶν Ὁμήρου ποιημάτων ἐν τῇ Μνημοσύνῃ ἐπιγραφομένῃ φάσκουσα τὴν ἀμβροσίαν τῷ Διὶ τὰσ Πλειάδασ κομίζειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 801)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ ἐπ’ Εὐτρησίουσ ἐκτροπῇ, οἱ μὲν Ἀρκάδεσ καὶ Ἀργεῖοι προσέβαινον εἰσ τὴν Λάκαιναν, καὶ οὗτοι ὡσ ἀποκλείσοντεσ αὐτὸν τῆσ ἐπ’ οἶκον ὁδοῦ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 37:3)
  • πᾶσα ἐκτροπὴ ἀπό τινοσ ἀνθρωπικοῦ γίνεται, αὕτη ἐγγύσ ἐστι τῷ μὴ ἀνθρωπικὴ εἶναι. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 36:2)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐδόκουν τοὺσ μὲν πορεύεσθαι, αὐτὸσ δὲ συνεξιέναι μετ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπειδὴ γιγνόμεθα πρὸσ τῇ πυλίδι, οὗ ἡ ἐκτροπὴ πρὸσ τὸ ἱερόν ἐστι, τοὺσ μὲν βαδίζειν εὐθὺ τοῦ ἱεροῦ, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἀπαλλαττόμενοσ δεξιοῦσθαί τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ χάριν ἔχειν, ὅτι πανταχοῦ κοσμοῖεν καὶ μέλοι πάντωσ αὐτοῖσ τῶν ἐμῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ ἀφεῖσι τὸ Λούγδουνον καὶ τὴν ὑπερκειμένην χώραν ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ Ποινίνῳ πάλιν ἐκτροπὴ διαβάντι τὸν Ῥοδανὸν ἢ τὴν λίμνην τὴν Λημένναν εἰσ τὰ Ἐλουηττίων πεδία, κἀντεῦθεν εἰσ Σηκοανοὺσ ὑπέρθεσισ διὰ τοῦ Ιὄρα ὄρουσ καὶ εἰσ Λίγγονασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 22:5)

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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