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ἐπίκριον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: epikrion

Principal Part: ἐπίκριον ἐπίκριου

Structure: ἐπικρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the yard-arm

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίκριον ἐπικρίω ἐπίκρια
Genitive ἐπικρίου ἐπικρίοιν ἐπικρίων
Dative ἐπικρίῳ ἐπικρίοιν ἐπικρίοις
Accusative ἐπίκριον ἐπικρίω ἐπίκρια
Vocative ἐπίκριον ἐπικρίω ἐπίκρια

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

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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