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ἐπικουρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικουρία

Structure: ἐπικουρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)pikoure/w

Sense

  1. aid, succour
  2. an auxiliary or mercenary force

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπικουρία ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίαι
Genitive ἐπικουρίᾱς ἐπικουρίαιν ἐπικουριῶν
Dative ἐπικουρίᾱͅ ἐπικουρίαιν ἐπικουρίαις
Accusative ἐπικουρίᾱν ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίᾱς
Vocative ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίαι

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὔπω ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν ἔλεγχοσ κατ’ αὐτῶν ὡσ οὔτε ἠπίσταντο χρηστὸν οὐδὲν οὔτ’ ἠδύναντο βελτίουσ ποιεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐξῆν αὐτοῖσ τήν τε τέχνην ἔχειν δήπουθεν καὶ τὸ χρηστοὺσ εἶναι, εἰ καὶ τῶν μειζόνων ἐπικουριῶν ἔν γε τῷ τότε ἐστέρηντο· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 147:7)
  • τινὲσ δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἐπικουρίων καὶ Στωικῶν φιλοσόφων συνέβαλλον αὐτῷ, καί τινεσ ἔλεγον Τί ἂν θέλοι ὁ σπερμολόγοσ οὗτοσ λέγειν; (, chapter 14 139:1)

Synonyms

  1. aid

  2. an auxiliary or mercenary force

Related

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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