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ἐπίπνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπνοια

Structure: ἐπιπνοι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipne/w

Sense

  1. a breathing upon, inspiration

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίπνοια ἐπιπνοίᾱ ἐπίπνοιαι
Genitive ἐπιπνοίᾱς ἐπιπνοίαιν ἐπιπνοιῶν
Dative ἐπιπνοίᾱͅ ἐπιπνοίαιν ἐπιπνοίαις
Accusative ἐπιπνοίᾱν ἐπιπνοίᾱ ἐπιπνοίᾱς
Vocative ἐπιπνοίᾱ ἐπιπνοίᾱ ἐπίπνοιαι

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

  • μονιμωτέρα γοῦν τῶν Ἀπελλοῦ καὶ Παρρασίου καὶ Πολυγνώτου γένοιτ’ ἄν, καὶ αὐτῇ ἐκεινῇ παρὰ πολὺ τῶν τοιούτων κεχαρισμένη, ὅσῳ μὴ ξύλου καὶ κηροῦ καὶ χρωμάτων πεποίηται, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ παρὰ Μουσῶν ἐπιπνοίαισ ^ εἴκασται, ἥπερ ἀκριβεστάτη εἰκὼν γένοιτ’ ἂν σώματοσ κάλλοσ καὶ ψυχῆσ ἀρετὴν ἅμα ἐμφανίζουσα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 23:3)
  • Διὸσ δ’ ἀπημάντῳ σθένει καὶ θείαισ ἐπιπνοίαισ παύεται, δακρύων δ’ ἀπο‐ στάζει πένθιμον αἰδῶ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 44)

Synonyms

  1. a breathing upon

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

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