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ἐπίκλυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκλυσις ἐπίκλυσεως

Structure: ἐπικλυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)piklu/zw

Sense

  1. an overflow, flood

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

  • ἔπειθ’ ὥσπερ οὐδὲν εἰρηκὼσ τοιοῦτον ἀθρόαισ ἐπικλύσει ταῖσ παρισώσεσιν, ἐπιφέρων ταυτί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:7)
  • ἐπικλύσει πόλιν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 112)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔτι τὴν γῆν ἐπικλύσει τὸ ὕδωρ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 124:3)

Synonyms

  1. an overflow

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

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