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ἐπικάρσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικάρσιος ἐπικάρσιᾱ ἐπικάρσιον

Structure: ἐπικαρσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)gka/rsios,

Sense

  1. athwart, cross-wise, at an angle, at a right angle, measured along the coast, (at right angles to the coast), forming an angle

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Ὅστισ δὲ ἀμφοτέρωθεν τῆσ κεφαλῆσ προβολὴν ἔχει, ἐκ τε τοῦ ἔμπροσθεν καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ὄπισθεν, τουτέῳ αἱ Ῥαφαί εἰσιν ὁμοίωσ πεφυκυῖαι ὡσ γράμμα τὸ ἦτα, , γράφεται‧ πεφύκασι δὲ τῶν γραμμέων αἱ μὲν μακραὶ, πρὸ τῆσ προβολῆσ ἑκατέρησ ἐπικάρσιαι πεφυκυῖαι‧ ἡ δὲ βραχείη διὰ μέσησ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ κατὰ μῆκοσ πρὸσ ἑκατέρην τελευτῶσα τὴν μακρὴν γραμμήν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 1.4)
  • αἱ μὲν ἔπειτ’ ἐφέροντ’ ἐπικάρσιαι, ἱστία δέ σφιν τριχθά τε καὶ τετραχθὰ διέσχισεν ἲσ ἀνέμοιο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 4:5)

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

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