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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

  • "Βάκτρα καὶ τὴν ἐκεῖ γῆν δεῖ γὰρ ἀπολαῦσαι καὶ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ τῆσ ἐπιδημίασ τῆσ ἐμῆσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 43:12)
  • ὑπετάραττε γὰρ ἡσυχῇ τὸ παράδοξον μου τῆσ ἐπιδημίασ, καὶ ὅσον οὐδέπω πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀφίξεσθαι προσεδόκων τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐπτερωμένουσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 22:7)
  • ἐπῄει οὖν ἡμῖν πολὺ μᾶλλον πιστεύειν τῷ ἐπὶ τῆσ στήλησ ἐπιγράμματι, ὁρῶσι τὰ σημεῖα τῆσ Διονύσου ἐπιδημίασ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 7:6)
  • ἔταξαν δὲ καὶ τὴν προθεσμίαν τῆσ ἐπιδημίασ μὴ πλέον μηνῶν ἑπτά. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 10:6)
  • καὶ ὁ πρῶτοσ δὴ χρόνοσ τῆσ εἰσ Σικελίαν ἐμῆσ ἐπιδημίασ τε καὶ διατριβῆσ διὰ πάντα ταῦτα συνέβη γενόμενοσ. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 45:1)

Synonyms

  1. a stay in a place

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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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