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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

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

  • Ἀθηνόδωρον, ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ τῶν Ἐπιδημιῶν ἱστοροῦντα πρῶτον ἐν τοῖσ κατ’ Ἀσκληπιάδην χρόνοισ οὐ μόνον τὴν ἐλεφαντίασιν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ὑδροφόβαν ἐκφανῆ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a stay in a place

Related

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

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