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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

  • κίων δὲ τοῦδε τοῦ πάθεοσ ἡ ἐπίκλησισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 85)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ πάθεοσ ἰδέη, ἀνίσχοντοσ ὄρθια τοῦ πάσχοντοσ τὰ αἰδοῖα· ἐπίκλησισ σατυρίησισ ἐσ ὁμοιότητα τοῦ θεοῦ σχήματοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 259)
  • ἄλλοτε δὲ μυξώδεα μοῦνον, ὀδαξώδεα, σμικρὰ, στρογγύλα, δακνώδεα, ἐξαναστάσιασ πυκινὰσ, καὶ προθυμίην ξὺν ἡδονῇ ποιεύμενα, ἐκκρίσιασ δὲ κάρτα σμικράσ · τεινασμὸσ τοῦδε ἡ ἐπίκλησισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 209)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ αὐτό, ἡ τῆσ ποιήσεωσ ἐπίκλησισ, τῶν ποιουμένων αὐτῶν δυσχέρειαν ἀπεργάζοιτ’ ἄν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 15:1)
  • Ῥητογένησ δέ, ἀνὴρ Νομαντῖνοσ, ᾧ Καραύνιοσ ἐπίκλησισ ἦν, ἄριστοσ ἐσ ἀρετὴν Νομαντίνων, πέντε πείσασ φίλουσ, σὺν παισὶν ἄλλοισ τοσοῖσδε καὶ ἵπποισ τοσοῖσδε ἐν νυκτὶ συννεφεῖ διῆλθε λαθὼν τὸ μεταίχμιον, κλίμακα φέρων πτυκτήν, καὶ φθάσασ ἐσ τὸ περιτείχισμα ἀνεπήδησεν αὐτόσ τε καὶ οἱ φίλοι, καὶ τοὺσ ἑκατέρωθεν φύλακασ ἀνελόντεσ τοὺσ μὲν θεράποντασ ἀπέπεμψαν ὀπίσω, τοὺσ δ’ ἵππουσ διὰ τῆσ κλίμακοσ ἀναγαγόντεσ ἐξίππευσαν ἐσ τὰσ Ἀρουακῶν πόλεισ σὺν ἱκετηρίαισ, δεόμενοι Νομαντίνοισ συγγενέσιν οὖσιν ἐπικουρεῖν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 3:12)
  • τοιγαροῦν καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα ὃ μεταξὺ ὀρχούμενοι ᾄδουσιν Ἀφροδίτησ ἐπίκλησίσ ἐστιν καὶ Ἐρώτων, ὡσ συγκωμάζοιεν αὐτοῖσ καὶ συνορχοῖντο. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 11:1)

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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