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ἐπίστασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίστασις ἐπίστασεως

Structure: ἐπιστασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pisth=nai

Sense

  1. a stopping, halting, a halt, haltings
  2. attention, care, anxiety
  3. superintendence

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίστασις ἐπιστάσει ἐπιστάσεις
Genitive ἐπιστάσεως ἐπιστάσοιν ἐπιστάσεων
Dative ἐπιστάσει ἐπιστάσοιν ἐπιστάσεσιν*
Accusative ἐπίστασιν ἐπιστάσει ἐπιστάσεις
Vocative ἐπίστασι ἐπιστάσει ἐπιστάσεις

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

  • ἀντιλαμβανόμενοι γὰρ ἑκάστοτε κεναῖσ καὶ περιτταῖσ ἐρωτήσεσι τοῦ διδάσκοντοσ, ὥσπερ ἐν συνοδίᾳ, τὸ ἐνδελεχὲσ ἐμποδίζουσι τῆσ μαθήσεωσ, ἐπιστάσεισ καὶ διατριβὰσ λαμβανούσησ. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 18 9:2)
  • πολλὰσ διὰ μέσου ποιούμενον ἐπιστάσεισ, εἶτ’ αὖθισ ὁρμὰσ καὶ ἐπιπηδήσεισ, ἀλλὰ λείωσ καὶ ὁμαλῶσ τοῦ πρόσθεν ἐπιλαμβανόμενον ἀεὶ καὶ διϊὸν ἀπταίστωσ διὰ τοῦ λόγου τεκμήριον ἑαυτῷ ποιήσαιτο προκοπῆσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • πολλὰσ γὰρ ἔσχον φροντίδων ἐπιστάσεισ, ὁδοῖσ κυκλῶν ἐμαυτὸν εἰσ ἀναστροφήν· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. a stopping

  2. attention

  3. superintendence

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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