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ἐπίδοσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίδοσις ἐπίδοσεως

Structure: ἐπιδοσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pidi/dwmi

Sense

  1. a giving over and above, a voluntary contribution, a "benevolence, "
  2. increase, growth, advance, progress

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

  • "ἐπιδόσεων δέ ποτε γινομένων παρελθὼν καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἔφη ἐπιδίδωμι κἀγώ,’ καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἀνεβόησαν ’εἰσ ἀκολασίαν ἦν δ’ ὁ Φῶκοσ καὶ φιλοπότησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 674)
  • ἐν τῇ βουλῇ γιγνομένων ἐπιδόσεων παρὼν οὐκ ἐπεδίδου τότε· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 210:9)

Synonyms

  1. increase

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

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