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ἐπίβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίβασις ἐπίβασεως

Structure: ἐπιβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pibai/nw

Sense

  1. a stepping upon, approaching: a means of approach, access, means of attacking

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

  • στύλουσ αὐτοῦ ἐποίησεν ἀργύριον καὶ ἀνάκλιτον αὐτοῦ χρύσεον. ἐπίβασισ αὐτοῦ πορφυρᾶ, ἐντὸσ αὐτοῦ λιθόστρωτον, ἀγάπην ἀπὸ θυγατέρων Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 3:10)
  • Ἢν δὲ μηροῦ ἄρθρον ἐξ ἰσχίου ἐκπέσῃ, ἐκπίπτει δὲ κατὰ τέσσαρασ τρόπουσ, ἐσ μὲν τὸ ἔσω πλειστάκισ, ἐσ δὲ τὸ ἔξω τῶν ἄλλων πλειστάκισ‧ ἐσ δὲ τὸ ὄπισθεν καὶ τὸ ἔμπροσθεν ἐκπίπτει μὲν, ὀλιγάκισ δέ‧ οἷσι μὲν οὖν ἂν ἐκβῇ ἐσ τὸ ἔσω, μακρότερον τὸ σκέλοσ φαίνεται, παραβαλλόμενον πρὸσ τὸ ἕτερον, διὰ δισσὰσ προφάσιασ εἰκότωσ‧ ἐπί τε γὰρ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἰσχίου πεφυκὸσ ὀστέον, τὸ ἄνω φερόμενον πρὸσ τὸν κτένα, ἐπὶ τοῦτο ἡ ἐπίβασισ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ μηροῦ γίνεται, καὶ ὁ αὐχὴν τοῦ ἄρθρου ἐπὶ τῆσ κοτύλησ ὀχέεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 51.1)
  • Ὁκόσοισι δ’ἂν ἐσ τὸ ἔξω ἡ τοῦ μηροῦ κεφαλὴ ἐκβῇ, τούτοισι βραχύτερον μὲν τὸ σκέλοσ φαίνεται παρατεινόμενον παρὰ τὸ ἕτερον‧ εἰκότωσ‧ οὐ γὰρ ἐπ’ ὀστέον ἡ ἐπίβασισ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ μηροῦ ἐστιν, ὡσ ὅτε ἔσω ἐκπέπτωκεν, ἀλλὰ παρ’ ὀστέον παρεγκεκλιμένην τὴν φύσιν ἔχον, ἐν σαρκὶ δὲ στηρίζεται ὑγρῇ καὶ ὑπεικούσῃ‧ διὰ τοῦτο μὲν βραχύτερον φαίνεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 54.1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ποταμίῳ ῥεύματι ἐοίκεν ἡ τῆσ πλημμυρίδοσ ἐπίβασισ, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον ἡ ἀναχώρησισ οὐ τοιαύτη, ὅ τε τοῦ Κράτητοσ λόγοσ διδάσκει τι πιθανώτερον. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 1 14:9)

Synonyms

  1. a stepping upon

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

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