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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

  • ἀγομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ πυθόμενοσ ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ ἀπήντα σὺν ἐπιστάσει, τὴν τύχην ὁμοῦ καὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα τἀνδρὸσ καὶ ἀρετὴν ἐνθυμούμενοσ, ὅπωσ Βροῦτον ὑποδέξαιτο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 16 13:8)
  • ταχὺ μὲν γὰρ ἐκπλαγέντα καὶ κεκινημένον χωρῆσαι πρόσ τι τῶν ἀτόπων, εἰ καὶ δυσχερέσ, ἀλλ’ ἀεὶ συμβαῖνον, ἐν ἐπιστάσει δὲ καὶ μήκει πολλάκισ μὲν ὁρμηθέντα πολλάκισ δὲ μελλήσαντα τὸ τελευταῖον ὑποστῆναι καὶ διαπράξασθαι, φονώσησ καὶ δυσμετακινήτου ψυχῆσ ἀπὸ τῶν χειρόνων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 475:2)

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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