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ἐπιδημία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδημία

Structure: ἐπιδημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pidhme/w

Sense

  1. a stay in a place

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιδημία ἐπιδημίᾱ ἐπιδημίαι
Genitive ἐπιδημίᾱς ἐπιδημίαιν ἐπιδημιῶν
Dative ἐπιδημίᾱͅ ἐπιδημίαιν ἐπιδημίαις
Accusative ἐπιδημίᾱν ἐπιδημίᾱ ἐπιδημίᾱς
Vocative ἐπιδημίᾱ ἐπιδημίᾱ ἐπιδημίαι

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

  • Ιὤν γοῦν ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐπιγραφομέναισ Ἐπιδημίαισ γράφει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 812)
  • τῶν δὲ χημῶν μνημονεύει Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν Ἐπιδημίαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 44 4:2)
  • καὶ ὁ Χῖοσ δὲ Ιὤν ἐν ταῖσ Ἐπιδημίαισ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 69 2:4)
  • ὡσ γὰρ καθόλου δυσαρεστούμενοι ταῖσ τῶν βασιλέων ἐπιδημίαισ δόγμα τι τοιοῦτον ἐξέβαλον, μηδένα βασιλέα παραγίνεσθαι πρὸσ αὑτούσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, chapter 19 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a stay in a place

Related

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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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