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ἐπιδοχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδοχή

Structure: ἐπιδοχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pide/xomai

Sense

  1. the reception of something new

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

  • ὥστε καὶ τῶν φίλων ἐρομένων τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ ἐπὶ τοιούτοισ ὁλκῇ χρωμένου, ἔφη τὰσ μὲν πρεσβείασ τρίβειν, ὅπωσ μὴ ἀπαλλαγῆσ αὐταῖσ ἐκ τοῦ ὀξέοσ γενομένησ ἕτεροι πρέσβεισ ἐπιχειροτονηθέντεσ ἐπανίοιεν ὄχλοσ τε αὐτῷ γίγνοιτο ἐπιδοχαῖσ αὐτῶν καὶ πομπαῖσ προσκειμένῳ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 208:1)

Synonyms

  1. the reception of something new

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

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