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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

  • τάμνειν δὲ πάντα ἀσινέα· ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ σταφυλῇ ἔτι ἐρυθριώσῃ, αἱμορραγίη καὶ πόνοι καὶ φλεγμον ῆσ ἐπίδοσισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 99)
  • οἶνοσ γὰρ φλεγμαίνουσι μὲν πόνων ἐπίδοσισ, ἀφλεγμάντοισι δὲ φύσιοσ αὔξησισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 134)
  • ταῦτ’ οὖν μᾶλλον ἐναντία λέγομεν, πρὸσ ἃ ἡ ἐπίδοσισ μᾶλλον γίνεται· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 104:1)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ἐπιτείνωσι τῷ ἐλάττονεσ ὄντεσ μείζονασ οὐσίασ ἔχειν, ἡ τρίτη ἐπίδοσισ γίνεται τῆσ ὀλιγαρχίασ, τὸ δι’ αὑτῶν μὲν τὰσ ἀρχὰσ ἔχειν, κατὰ νόμον δὲ τὸν κελεύοντα τῶν τελευτώντων διαδέχεσθαι τοὺσ υἱεῖσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 108:1)
  • Τὰ πλειστάκισ ἐκπίπτοντα Ῥᾷον ἐμπίπτει‧ αἴτιον φύσισ, ἢ νεύρων, ἢ ὀστέων, νεύρων μὲν, μῆκοσ ἢ ἐπίδοσισ, ὀστέων δὲ, κοτύλησ ὁμαλότησ, κεφαλῆσ φαλακρότησ‧ τὸ ἔθοσ τρίβον ποιέει‧ αἰτίη, καὶ σχέσισ, καὶ ἕξισ, καὶ ἡλικίη. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 40.20)
  • ἡ δ’ αὔξησισ ἐπίδοσίσ ἐστι καὶ διάστασισ κατὰ μῆκοσ καὶ πλάτοσ καὶ βάθοσ τῶν στερεῶν τοῦ ζῳού μορίων, ὧνπερ καὶ ἡ διάπλασισ ἦν, ἡ δὲ θρέψισ πρόσθεσισ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἄνευ διαστάσεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 56)

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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