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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

  • Ῥινὸν τρηχὺν καὶ πάχιστον, ὀχθώδεασ Ῥωγμοὺσ ἴσχοντα, αὐλῶνασ ἐπιμήκεασ , ἑτέρασ ἐντομὰσ κοίλασ, ἐπικαρσίουσ, ἄλλασ δὲ λοξὰσ, βαθείασ κάρτα, ἴκελον τὸ ξύμπαν τριπόλῳ νειῷ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 358)
  • ὡρ́μησεν οὖν τὴν ἐπαινουμένην κατακτᾶσθαι πρότερον, ἅμα καὶ τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ εὐπερατοτέρουσ νομίσασ τῶν πηγῶν πλησίον, οὓσ ἀναγκαῖον ἦν διαβαίνειν, ἐπικαρσίουσ ὄντασ καὶ τέμνοντασ ἣν ἐπῄει γῆν. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 52:11)

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

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