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ἐπιγουνίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγουνίς ἐπιγουνίδος

Structure: ἐπιγουνιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: go/nu

Sense

  1. the part above the knee, the great muscle of the thigh, thigh-muscle

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιγουνίς ἐπιγουνίδε ἐπιγουνίδες
Genitive ἐπιγουνίδος ἐπιγουνίδοιν ἐπιγουνίδων
Dative ἐπιγουνίδι ἐπιγουνίδοιν ἐπιγουνίσιν*
Accusative ἐπιγουνίδα ἐπιγουνίδε ἐπιγουνίδας
Vocative ἐπιγουνί ἐπιγουνίδε ἐπιγουνίδες

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.

Synonyms

  1. the part above the knee

Similar forms

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

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