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ἐπιφυλλίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιφυλλίς ἐπιφυλλίδος

Structure: ἐπιφυλλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/llon

Sense

  1. the small grapes left for gleaners, mere gleanings.

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

  • ΟΙΜΟΙ, ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡσ συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμήτῳ, καὶ ὡσ ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐν τρυγητῷ, οὐχ ὑπάρχοντοσ βότρυοσ τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα. οἴμοι, ψυχή, (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 7:1)
  • εἰ κλέπται εἰσῆλθον πρόσ σε ἢ λῃσταὶ νυκτόσ, ποῦ ἂν ἀπερρίφησ̣ οὐκ ἂν ἔκλεψαν τὰ ἱκανὰ ἑαυτοῖσ̣ καὶ εἰ τρυγηταὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸσ σέ, οὐκ ἂν ὑπελίποντο ἐπιφυλλίδα̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Abdiae 1:5)
  • Εἰσέλθοι πᾶσα ἡ κακία αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ ἐπιφύλλισον αὐτοῖσ, ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησαν ἐπιφυλλίδα περὶ πάντων τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων μου, ὅτι πολλοὶ οἱ στεναγμοί μου, καὶ καρδία μου λυπεῖται. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:23)
  • Ἰδέ, Κύριε, καὶ ἐπίβλεψον τίνι ἐπφφύλλισασ οὕτωσ. εἰ φάγονται γυναῖκεσ καρπὸν κοιλίασ αὐτῶν̣ ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐποίησε μάγειροσ. φονευθήσονται νήπια θηλάζοντα μαστούσ̣ ἀποκτενεῖσ ἐν ἁγιάσματι Κυρίου ἱερέα καὶ προφήτην̣ (Septuagint, Lamentationes 2:20)
  • πορφυρέην ταύτην ἐπιφυλλίδα, τὴν θ’ ἁλίπαστον δρύπεπα, καὶ ψαιστῶν τὴν νομίμην θυσίην, σπονδὴν θ’, ἣν ἀσάλευτον ἀφύλισα, καὶ τὰ μελιχρὰ σῦκα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1912)

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

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