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ἐπεργασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπεργασία

Structure: ἐπεργασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. cultivation of another's land, encroachment upon
  2. the right of mutual tillage

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

  • διὸ χρὴ πάντωσ εὐλαβεῖσθαι γείτονα γείτονι μηδὲν ποιεῖν διάφορον, τῶν τε ἄλλων πέρι καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐπεργασίασ συμπάσησ σφόδρ’ ἀεὶ διευλαβούμενον· (Plato, Laws, book 8 97:1)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἔδοσαν καὶ ἔλαβον πάντεσ τὰ πιστά, καὶ ἐλευθέρουσ μὲν ἀμφοτέρουσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων εἶναι συνετίθεντο, ἐπιγαμίασ δ’ εἶναι καὶ ἐπεργασίασ καὶ ἐπινομίασ, καὶ ἐπιμαχίαν δὲ κοινήν, εἴ τισ ἀδικοίη ὁποτέρουσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 30:2)

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

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