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ἐπεσβολία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπεσβολία

Structure: ἐπεσβολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pesbo/los

Sense

  1. hasty speech, scurrility

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπεσβολία ἐπεσβολίᾱ ἐπεσβολίαι
Genitive ἐπεσβολίᾱς ἐπεσβολίαιν ἐπεσβολιῶν
Dative ἐπεσβολίᾱͅ ἐπεσβολίαιν ἐπεσβολίαις
Accusative ἐπεσβολίᾱν ἐπεσβολίᾱ ἐπεσβολίᾱς
Vocative ἐπεσβολίᾱ ἐπεσβολίᾱ ἐπεσβολίαι

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

  • ἀλλὰ σαόφρων ἐστί, νεμεσσᾶται δ’ ἐνὶ θυμῷ ὧδ’ ἐλθὼν τὸ πρῶτον ἐπεσβολίασ ἀναφαίνειν ἄντα σέθεν, τοῦ νῶι θεοῦ ὣσ τερπόμεθ’ αὐδῇ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 18:3)

Similar forms

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

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