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ἐπιγουνίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγουνίς ἐπιγουνίδος

Structure: ἐπιγουνιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: go/nu

Sense

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.

Examples

εἰή δ’, ὦ θεοί, καὶ τὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἐμπνεῦσαι δεξιά, ὡσ νῦν γε μάλιστα πλησιστίου τε καὶ ἐσθλοῦ ἑταίρου ἀνέμου δεόμεθα, ἵνα, εἰ ἄξιοι φαινοίμεθα, καὶ ἡμῖν τὸ Ὁμηρικὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπιφθέγξηταί τίσ, οἱήν ἐκ ῥακέων ὁ γέρων ἐπιγουνίδα φαίνει. (Lucian, Hercules, 8:5)
ἂν δὲ χιτῶνασ λεπταλέουσ λευκῆσ ἐπιγουνίδοσ ἄχρισ ἀείρον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:37)
χαίροι μὲν Διόνυσοσ, ὃν ἐν Δρακάνῳ νιφόεντι Ζεὺσ ὕπατοσ μεγάλαν ἐπιγουνίδα κάτθετο λύσασ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 20)
καὶ ῥ’ ὁ μὲν ἦν Ἀχιλῆι πανείκελοσ, οἱο͂σ ἐκεῖνοσ τῶν Λυκομηδείων ἔνδον ἐήν θαλάμων κούρη δ’ ἀργυφέησ ἐπιγουνίδοσ ἄχρι χιτῶνα ζωσαμένη, Φοίβησ εἶδοσ ἀπεπλάσατο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 255 1:1)
Κρεμάσαι χρὴ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῶν ποδῶν πρὸσ μεσόδμην δεσμῷ δυνατῷ μὲν, μαλθακῷ δὲ καὶ πλάτοσ ἔχοντι‧ τοὺσ δὲ πόδασ διέχειν χρὴ, ὅσον τέσσαρασ δακτύλουσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, ἢ καὶ ἔλασσον‧ χρὴ δὲ καὶ ἐπάνωθεν τῶν ἐπιγουνίδων προσπεριβεβλῆσθαι πλαῖ ἱμάντι καὶ μαλθακῷ, ἀνατείνοντι ἐσ τὴν μεσόδμην‧ τὸ δὲ σκέλοσ τὸ σιναρὸν ἐντετάσθαι χρὴ ὡσ δύο δακτύλουσ μᾶλλον τοῦ ἑτέρου‧ ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ γῆσ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπεχέτω ὡσ δύο πήχεασ, ἢ ὀλίγῳ πλέον, ἢ ἔλασσον‧ τὰσ δὲ χεῖρασ παρατεταμένασ παρὰ τὰσ πλευρὰσ προσδεδεμένοσ ἔστω μαλθακῷ τινι‧ πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ὑπτίῳ κατακειμένῳ κατασκευασθήτω, ὡσ ὅτι ἐλάχιστον χρόνον κρέμηται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 70.2)

Synonyms

the part above the knee
- ἰγνύα (the part behind the thigh and knee, the ham)

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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the part above the knee

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