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ἐπίκτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκτησις ἐπίκτησεως

Structure: ἐπικτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. further acquisition, fresh gain

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίκτησις ἐπικτήσει ἐπικτήσεις
Genitive ἐπικτήσεως ἐπικτήσοιν ἐπικτήσεων
Dative ἐπικτήσει ἐπικτήσοιν ἐπικτήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐπίκτησιν ἐπικτήσει ἐπικτήσεις
Vocative ἐπίκτησι ἐπικτήσει ἐπικτήσεις

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

  • καὶ ἐν τῷδε αὖ πάλιν οἱ μὲν διήρπασαν δύο τῶν ἡμετέρων στρατοπέδων ὄντων τὸ ἕτερον, ἡμεῖσ δὲ ἐκείνων ἅπαντα ἔχομεν, ὡσ καὶ τῷδε τὴν ἐπίκτησιν τῆσ βλάβησ διπλασίονα εἶναι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 16 1:9)

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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