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ἐπερώτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπερώτησις

Structure: ἐπερωτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)perwta/w

Sense

  1. a questioning, consulting

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

  • δεδόχθαι τῷ δήμῳ χειροτονῆσαι τὸν δῆμον ἕνα ἄνδρα ἐξ Ἀθηναίων, ὅστισ ἀφικόμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν Σωτῆρα καὶ καλλιερησάμενοσ ἐπερωτήσει τὸν Σωτῆρα πῶσ ἂν εὐσεβέστατα καὶ κάλλιστα καὶ τὴν ταχίστην ὁ δῆμοσ τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν ποιήσαιτο τῶν ἀναθημάτων· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 13 1:4)
  • αἰσχύνομαι γὰρ ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ, εἰ Τίμαρχοσ, ὁ τοῦ δήμου σύμβουλοσ καὶ τὰσ εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα τολμῶν πρεσβείασ πρεσβεύειν, μὴ τὸ πρᾶγμα ὅλον ἀποτρίψασθαι ἐπιχειρήσει, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ τόπουσ ἐπερωτήσει ὅπου ἐκαθέζετο, καὶ τοὺσ τελώνασ, εἰ πώποτε παρ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ πορνικὸν τέλοσ εἰλήφασιν. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1202)

Synonyms

  1. a questioning

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

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