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ἐπαφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαφή

Structure: ἐπαφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pafa/w

Sense

  1. touch, touching, handling

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

  • Δαναὸσ δὲ πατὴρ καὶ βούλαρχοσ καὶ στασίαρχοσ τάδε πεσσονομῶν κύδιστ’ ἀχέων ἐπέκρανε, φεύγειν ἀνέδην διὰ κῦμ’ ἅλιον, κέλσαι δ’ Ἄργουσ γαῖαν, ὅθεν δὴ γένοσ ἡμέτερον τῆσ οἰστροδόνου βοὸσ ἐξ ἐπαφῆσ κἀξ ἐπιπνοίασ Διὸσ εὐχόμενον τετέλεσται. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:3)
  • ἄλλο τι τοῦ μὲν σκληροῦ τὴν σκληρότητα διὰ τῆσ ἐπαφῆσ αἰσθήσεται, καὶ τοῦ μαλακοῦ τὴν μαλακότητα ὡσαύτωσ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 268:2)
  • Εἂν δύο κύκλοι ἐφάπτωνται ἀλλήλων ἐκτόσ, ἡ ἐπὶ τὰ κέντρα αὐτῶν ἐπιζευγνυμένη διὰ τῆσ ἐπαφῆσ ἐλεύσεται. (Euclid, Elements, book 3, type Prop200)
  • λέγω, ὅτι ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζ ἐπὶ τὸ Η ἐπιζευγνυμένη εὐθεῖα διὰ τῆσ κατὰ τὸ Α ἐπαφῆσ ἐλεύσεται. (Euclid, Elements, book 3, type Prop202)
  • οὐκ ἄρα ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζ ἐπὶ τὸ Η ἐπιζευγνυμένη εὐθεῖα διὰ τῆσ κατὰ τὸ Α ἐπαφῆσ οὐκ ἐλεύσεται· (Euclid, Elements, book 3, type Prop211)

Synonyms

  1. touch

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

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