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ἐπιπτυχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπτυχή

Structure: ἐπιπτυχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an over-fold, a flap

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιπτυχή ἐπιπτυχᾱ́ ἐπιπτυχαί
Genitive ἐπιπτυχῆς ἐπιπτυχαῖν ἐπιπτυχῶν
Dative ἐπιπτυχῇ ἐπιπτυχαῖν ἐπιπτυχαῖς
Accusative ἐπιπτυχήν ἐπιπτυχᾱ́ ἐπιπτυχᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐπιπτυχή ἐπιπτυχᾱ́ ἐπιπτυχαί

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

  • Γέρων, φαλακρόσ, τριβώνιον ἔχων πολύθυρον, ἅπαντι ἀνέμῳ ἀναπεπταμένον καὶ ταῖσ ἐπιπτυχαῖσ τῶν ῥακίων ποικίλον, γελᾷ δ̓ ἀεὶ καὶ τὰ πολλὰ τοὺσ ἀλαζόνασ τούτουσ φιλοσόφουσ ἐπισκώπτει. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)

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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