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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

  • Ὁκόσοισι δὲ λιπαρὴ ἡ ἐπίστασισ καὶ ἀθρόη, τουτέοισι νεφριτικὰ καὶ ὀξέα σημαίνει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 87.35)
  • πανταχόθεν δὲ τοῦ κινήματοσ ἅμα γινομένου, καὶ τῶν συμβαινόντων πᾶσι παρὰ δόξαν προσπιπτόντων, ἦν παρ’ ἑκάστοισ ἐπίστασισ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 61 12:1)
  • Καὶ τῆσ μὲν Φιλίππου καὶ Ῥωμαίων παρατριβῆσ ἐπὶ πολὺ προβαινούσησ ἐπίστασισ ἐγενήθη κατὰ τὸ παρὸν διὰ τὴν τοῦ Δημητρίου παρουσίαν· (Polybius, Histories, book 23, chapter 3 4:1)
  • χωρὶσ τῶν παρεκτὸσ ἡ ἐπίστασίσ μοι ἡ καθ’ ἡμέραν, ἡ μέριμνα πασῶν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν. (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 7 111:1)

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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