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ἐπαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαρχία

Structure: ἐπαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/parxos

Sense

  1. the government of a province

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπαρχία ἐπαρχίᾱ ἐπαρχίαι
Genitive ἐπαρχίᾱς ἐπαρχίαιν ἐπαρχιῶν
Dative ἐπαρχίᾱͅ ἐπαρχίαιν ἐπαρχίαις
Accusative ἐπαρχίᾱν ἐπαρχίᾱ ἐπαρχίᾱς
Vocative ἐπαρχίᾱ ἐπαρχίᾱ ἐπαρχίαι

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

  • ἐπαρχίαι διαδίδονται· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 23:1)
  • ἐκ μὲν τῆσ Μηδίασ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ζάγρον τόπων διὰ τῆσ Μασσαβατικῆσ, ἐκ δὲ τῆσ Σουσίδοσ διὰ τῆσ Γαβιανῆσ ἐπαρχίαι δ’ εἰσὶν αὗται τῆσ Ἐλυμαίασ ἥ τε Γαβιανὴ καὶ ἡ Μασσαβατική, τρίτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ ἐκ τῆσ Περσίδοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 36:17)
  • αἱ δ’ ἐπαρχίαι διῄρηνται ἄλλοτε μὲν ἄλλωσ, ἐν δὲ τῷ παρόντι ὡσ Καῖσαρ ὁ Σεβαστὸσ διέταξεν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 50:1)

Synonyms

  1. the government of a province

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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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