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ἐνέδρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνέδρα

Structure: ἐνεδρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sitting in: a lying in wait, ambush
  2. the men laid in ambush

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

  • οὕτω γὰρ ἅμα μὲν τῶν φίλων φυλακαὶ γίγνονται, ἅμα δὲ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ ἐνέδραι κατασκευάζονται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 12:3)
  • πεῖραί τε τούτων τῶν ξεναγῶν ἦσαν ἐσ ἀλλήλουσ βραχύτεραι καὶ μείζουσ καὶ ἐνέδραι πολλάκισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 3 10:3)
  • ὅπλοισ τε γὰρ ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἐχρῶντο καὶ φωνῇ σχεδὸν ἅπαντεσ Ἰταλῇ, τά τε συνθήματα μιγνυμένων ἐσ ἀμφοτέρουσ ἐξενήνεκτο, καὶ ἐκ τοῦδε μάλιστα ἐνέδραι πολλαὶ καὶ ποικίλαι παρὰ ἀμφοῖν, καὶ ἀπιστία πρὸσ τοὺσ λέγοντασ αὐτὰ ἐπεγίγνετο, ἀγνωσία τε πάντασ ἀλλήλων ἐπεῖχεν ὡσ ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ θαλάσσῃ γεμούσῃ φόνων τε καὶ ὅπλων καὶ ναυαγίων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 12:3)

Synonyms

  1. a sitting in

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

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