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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

  • τὸ δὲ συμφέρον συνίσταται ἐκ τόπων τεσσάρων, οὗτοι δέ εἰσιν οἵδε, τήρησισ ὧν ἔχομεν ἀγαθῶν, ἐπίκτησισ ὧν οὐκ ἔχομεν ἀγαθῶν, ἀποφυγὴ τῶν περιεστώτων κακῶν, κώλυσισ τῶν ἐπιφερομένων κακῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:3)

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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