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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

  • χαλεπὴ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ὅλοισ ἦν καὶ δυσχερὴσ ἡ ἐπίτασισ τῆσ κακίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 6:3)
  • ἡ γάρ τῶν ἐφόρων κατάστασισ οὐκ ἄνεσισ ἦν, ἀλλ’ ἐπίτασισ τῆσ πολιτείασ, καὶ δοκοῦσα πρὸσ τοῦ δήμου γεγονέναι σφοδροτέραν ἐποίησε τὴν ἀριστοκρατίαν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 29 6:2)
  • Περὶ σημασίησ τοιαύτησ ἅλισ ἔστω‧ ἄνεσισ γὰρ καὶ ἐπίτασισ νοσέοντοσ ἐπινέμησιν ἰητρικὴν κέχρηνται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, PARAGGELIAI, viii.1)
  • "οὐκ ὀρθῶσ, ὦ μακάριε Φίλων ἐπίτασισ γὰρ καὶ αὔξησισ μέγεθοσ ἢ πλῆθοσ προστίθησι, τοῦ δὲ γένουσ οὐκ ἐκβιβάζει τὸ ὑποκείμενον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 6:15)
  • τῆσ νόσου δ’ ἦν ἐπίτασισ ζῶν Ἀντίπατροσ, ὃν οὐκ ἐν παρέργῳ, ῥαί̈σασ δὲ προῄρητο ἀνελεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 907:3)

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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