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ἐπισκότησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισκότησις ἐπισκότησεως

Structure: ἐπισκοτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)piskote/w

Sense

  1. a darkening, obscurity

Examples

  • ἀμφότεραι δ’ εἰσὶν ἐπισκοτήσεισ, ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν δυτικὴ τῆσ γῆσ ἡ δ’ ἐκλειπτικὴ τῆσ σελήνησ, τῇ σκιᾷ καταλαμβανούσησ τὴν ὄψιν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 19 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a darkening

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

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