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ἐπίλειψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίλειψις ἐπίλειψεως

Structure: ἐπιλειψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pilei/pw

Sense

  1. a deficiency, lack

Declension

Third 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

  • τὸ θερμὸν ὀξέωσ μεταβάλλῃ τὸ δὲ θερμὸν ἔξω φέρηται, διακρινομένησ τῆσ σαρκόσ, ἀθρόαν ἀνάγκη τῆσ δυνάμεωσ ἐπίλειψιν γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 30:1)
  • βελτίουσ δὲ οἱ τὸν ἥλιον αἰτιώμενοι καὶ τὴν ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἐπίκαυσιν κατ’ ἐπίλειψιν σφοδρὰν τῆσ ἐπιπολῆσ ἰκμάδοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 48:8)

Synonyms

  1. a deficiency

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

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