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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

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

  • ἔχει δὲ ἐπίστασιν ἡ τῶν ποιημάτων τούτων ἐκδοχή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 72 2:3)
  • εἰσ ἐπίστασιν δέ με ἄγει, καλὲ Οὐλπιανέ, περὶ τῆσ τῶν ἀργυρωμάτων χρήσεωσ τὸ ὑπὸ Ἀλέξιδοσ ἐν Φυγάδι εἰρημένον ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κέραμοσ μισθώσιμοσ ὁ τοῖσ μαγείροισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1423)
  • ἔχει ἐπίστασιν, πότερον γὰρ τὸ αὐτῷ ἀγαθὸν ἢ τὸ ἁπλῶσ ἀγαθὸν φίλον, καὶ πότερον τὸ κατ’ ἐνέργειαν φιλεῖν μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ, ὥστε καὶ τὸ φιλητὸν ἡδύ, ἢ οὔ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 53:4)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων κατηγοριῶν ἔχει τινὰ καὶ ἄλλην ἐπίστασιν πῶσ πολλά διὰ γὰρ τὸ μὴ χωριστὰ εἶναι τῷ τὸ ὑποκείμενον πολλὰ γίγνεσθαι καὶ εἶναι ποιά τε πολλὰ εἶναι καὶ ποσά· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14 54:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ πρωτεύοντασ ἄνδρασ ταῖσ δόξαισ καὶ ταῖσ εὐγενείαισ, πολλὰ πεπραχότασ ἐν τῷ ζῆν φιλάνθρωπα, μήτε λόγου μήτε κρίσεωσ δικαίασ τυγχάνειν πολλοὺσ ἦγεν εἰσ ἐπίστασιν διανοίασ καὶ φόβον, ἀστάτου καὶ κοινῆσ ἅπασι τῆσ τύχησ οὔσησ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 67 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a stopping

  2. attention

  3. superintendence

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

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