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ἐπίτασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτασις ἐπίτασεως

Structure: ἐπιτασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pitei/nw

Sense

  1. a stretching

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

  • εἰσ ἐπίτασιν δὲ θρησκείασ καὶ τοὺσ ἀγνοοῦντασ ἡ τοῦ τεχνίτου προετρέψατο φιλοτιμία. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:18)
  • ὁ δ’ Ὅμηροσ θεῶν πόμα τὸ νέκταρ οἶδεν Ἴβυκοσ δέ φησι τὴν ἀμβροσίαν τοῦ μέλιτοσ κατ’ ἐπίτασιν ἐννεαπλασίαν ἔχειν γλυκύτητα, τὸ μέλι λέγων ἔνατον εἶναι μέροσ τῆσ ἀμβροσίασ κατὰ τὴν ἡδονήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 8 2:1)
  • μή ποτ’ οὖν κρεῖττον ᾖ λέγειν, ὅτι κατὰ ἄνεσίν τε καὶ ἐπίτασιν τῶν ἐσχάτων ὁρ́ων οἱ διὰ μέσου γίνονται πολλοὶ πάνυ ὄντεσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 217)
  • περιβολὴν δὲ καὶ αἱ συμπληρώσεισ ἐργάζονται ἐν τῷ κατὰ Κόνωνοσ, ὅτι μὲν τοίνυν οὐ μετρίασ τινὰσ καὶ φαύλασ λαβὼν πληγάσ, καὶ τὸ ἀντικείμενον τῷ οὐ φαύλασ λαβὼν πληγάσ, ἀλλὰ ἐπανελθὼν διὰ τὴν ὕβριν καὶ τὴν ἀσέλγειαν τὴν τούτων, ἐπάγει τί παθὼν πεποίηκεν, πολλῷ τῆσ προσηκούσησ ἐλάττω δίκην εἴληχα, νῦν τὸ συλληπτικὸν εἰσ ἐπίτασιν ὁμολογούμενον, πολλαχόθεν νομίζω δῆλον ὑμῖν γεγενῆσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 17:1)
  • Ἢν δὲ ἐπίτασιν ἴσχῃ ὁ εἱλεὸσ, πάντων ἄνω ἡ φορὴ, πνευμάτων, φλέγματοσ, χολῆσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 137)

Synonyms

  1. a stretching

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

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