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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίκλυσις ἐπικλύσει ἐπικλύσεις
Genitive ἐπικλύσεως ἐπικλύσοιν ἐπικλύσεων
Dative ἐπικλύσει ἐπικλύσοιν ἐπικλύσεσιν*
Accusative ἐπίκλυσιν ἐπικλύσει ἐπικλύσεις
Vocative ἐπίκλυσι ἐπικλύσει ἐπικλύσεις

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

  • ἀνάγκη δ’ ἐνίων μνησθῆναι καὶ ὧν Ἡρόδοτοσ ἀντιλέγων ἐλέγχει, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι οὐχ οἱ ἐτησίαι τὸ ῥεῦμα ἀνακόπτοντεσ ποιοῦσι τὴν ἐπίκλυσιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:6)
  • εἰ γὰρ [οὐχ] οὕτω, δεήσει πλεονασμῷ τῆσ θαλάττησ αἰφνιδίῳ γενομένῳ τὴν ἐπίκλυσιν συμβαίνειν, καθάπερ ἐν ταῖσ ἀναβάσεσι τῶν ποταμῶν, τοτὲ μὲν ἐπενεχθέντοσ ἑτέρωθεν τοτὲ δ’ αὐξηθέντοσ τοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 10:5)

Synonyms

  1. an overflow

Similar forms

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

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