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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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἐναγίζουσί σφι μεγάλωσ καὶ ἀγῶνα γυμνικὸν καὶ ἱππικὸν ἐπιστᾶσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 167 3:3)
  • ἐπιστᾶσι δὲ ἐπὶ τὰσ πύλασ ἐγίνετο οἱο͂́ν τι Δαρείῳ ἡ γνώμη ἔφερε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 77 2:1)
  • οἱ μὲν δὴ Λήμνιοι καὶ ἐμαχέσαντο εὖ καὶ ἀμυνόμενοι ἀνὰ χρόνον ἐκακώθησαν, τοῖσι δὲ περιεοῦσι αὐτῶν οἱ Πέρσαι ὕπαρχον ἐπιστᾶσι Λυκάρητον τὸν Μαιανδρίου τοῦ βασιλεύσαντοσ Σάμου ἀδελφεόν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 27 2:1)
  • καί οἱ τελευτήσαντι Χερσονησῖται θύουσι ὡσ νόμοσ οἰκιστῇ, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἱππικόν τε καὶ γυμνικὸν ἐπιστᾶσι, ἐν τῷ Λαμψακηνῶν οὐδενὶ ἐγγίνεται ἀγωνίζεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 38 2:2)

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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