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ἔμπρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπρησις ἔμπρησεως

Structure: ἐμπρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)mprh/qw

Sense

  1. a conflagration

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

  • Ἀθήνῃσι μὲν ἐν τοῦ γηγενοῦσ Ἐρεχθέωσ τῷ σηκῷ ἱερά τισ ὑπ’ Ἀθηνᾶσ φυτευθεῖσα ἐλαία κατὰ τὴν ἔριν τὴν γενομένην αὐτῇ πρὸσ Ποσειδῶνα περὶ τῆσ χώρασ, ἅμα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τοῖσ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ οὖσιν ἐμπρησθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὅτε τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἐκράτησαν, δευτέρᾳ τῆσ ἐμπρήσεωσ ἡμέρᾳ βλαστὸν ἐκ τοῦ στελέχουσ ἀνῆκεν ὅσον τε πηχυαῖον, δῆλον ἅπασι ποιῆσαι βουλομένων τῶν θεῶν, ὅτι ταχέωσ ἑαυτὴν ἡ πόλισ ἀναλαβοῦσα βλαστοὺσ ἀντὶ τῶν παλαιῶν ἐξοίσει νέουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 2 2:1)
  • ἐν γὰρ τῷ ναῷ τῆσ Τύχησ, ὃν αὐτὸσ κατεσκεύασεν, εἰκὼν αὐτοῦ κειμένη ξυλίνη κατάχρυσοσ ἐμπρήσεωσ γενομένησ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων διαφθαρέντων μόνη διέμεινεν οὐδὲν λωβηθεῖσα ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 40 11:2)
  • ταύτην ἡμεῖσ μὲν οὐκέτι κειμένην εὑρ́ομεν, ἐλέγετο δ’ ἐμπρήσεωσ περὶ τὰσ πλησίον οἰκίασ γενομένησ ἠφανίσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 35 3:2)
  • τί δὲ γῆσ τε τμήσεωσ τῆσ Ἑλληνικῆσ καὶ οἰκιῶν ἐμπρήσεωσ; (Plato, Republic, book 5 501:1)

Synonyms

  1. a conflagration

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

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