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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

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)
  • οὗτοσ ἐν χερσὶ τῆσ μάχησ γενομένησ ἐπὶ τόν Πομπήϊον ὁρμήσασ αὐτὸν ἔβαλεν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ θώρακοσ ἐπιπτυχὴν ἀκοντίσματι, Πομπήϊοσ δὲ ἐκεῖνον ἐκ χειρὸσ διελάσασ ἀνεῖλεν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 35 3:1)
  • ἀπορίασ οὖν ἐχούσησ τὸν βασιλέα τῶν φίλων τισ τῶν τοῦ Ἡρώδου θεώμενοσ ὑπερραμμένον τοῦ δούλου τὸν ἐντὸσ χιτῶνα, ἐνεδεδύκει γὰρ δύο, εἴκασεν ἐντὸσ τῆσ ἐπιπτυχῆσ κρύπτεσθαι τὰ γράμματα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 161:1)

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

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