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ἐπίκλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκλησις ἐπίκλησεως

Structure: ἐπικλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pikale/w

Sense

  1. a surname or additional name;, by surname, by surname
  2. a name
  3. an imputation
  4. a calling upon, invocation, appeal

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

  • Πτολεμαῖοσ δὲ ὁ Λάγου ὁ τῶν καθ’ αὑτὸν εὐδαιμονέστατοσ βασιλέων Αἰγύπτου μὲν ἐβασίλευσεν, τέσσαρα δὲ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα βιώσασ ἔτη ζῶν παρέδωκεν τὴν ἀρχὴν πρὸ δύο ἐτοῖν τῆσ τελευτῆσ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ υἱῷ, Φιλαδέλφῳ δὲ ἐπίκλησιν, ὅστισ διεδέξατο τὴν πατρῴαν βασιλείαν ἀδελφῶν. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 12:1)
  • τοὺσ δὲ πατὴρ Τιτῆνασ ἐπίκλησιν καλέεσκε παῖδασ νεικείων μέγασ Οὐρανόσ, οὓσ τέκεν αὐτόσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 24:1)
  • ἡ δὲ εὐθὺσ ἐκ μελαίνησ τριχὸσ εἰσ πυρρὰν μεταβαλοῦσα τῷ μὲν λόγῳ πίστιν, τῷ δ’ ἀνδρὶ παρασχεῖν ἐπίκλησιν τὸν Αἠνόβαρβον, ὅπερ ἐστὶ χαλκοπώγωνα. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 25 2:3)
  • δεύτεραι αὖτε τράπεζαι ἐφωπλίζοντο γέμουσαι ἐν δ’ αὐταῖσιν ἐπῆν ἄπιοι καὶ πίονα μῆλα, ῥοιαί τε σταφυλαί τε, θεοῦ Βρομίοιο τιθῆναι, πρόσφατοσ ἥν θ’ ἁμάμαξυν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 18:2)
  • καὶ τὸ ἀειδὲσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἄχρωστον Αἵδησ καὶ Ἀχέρων ἐπίκλησιν ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 9 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a surname or additional name

  2. a name

  3. a calling upon

Related

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

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