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ἐπίκριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκριον ἐπίκριου

Structure: ἐπικρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the yard-arm

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐννύχιοι δ’ Ἄργοιο δαημοσύνῃσιν ἵκοντο Φᾶσίν τ’ εὐρὺ ῥέοντα, καὶ ἔσχατα πείρατα πόντοι Αὐτίκα δ’ ἱστία μὲν καὶ ἐπίκριον ἔνδοθι κοίλησ ἱστοδόκησ στείλαντεσ ἐκόσμεον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 21:15)
  • ἐν δ’ ἱστὸν ποίει καὶ ἐπίκριον ἄρμενον αὐτῷ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 24:15)
  • μέσον δέ οἱ ἱστὸν ἐάξεν δεινὴ μισγομένων ἀνέμων ἐλθοῦσα θύελλα, τηλοῦ δὲ σπεῖρον καὶ ἐπίκριον ἔμπεσε πόντῳ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 32:3)

Synonyms

  1. the yard-arm

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

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