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ἐπίτεξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτεξ εκος

Structure: εκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. at the birth, about to bring forth

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

  • "βαρύνεται γὰρ ἡ ἀθλία τὴν γαστέρα καὶ σχεδὸν ὡσ ἐπίτεξ ἐστὶν οἱ δὲ κατάρατοι οὗτοι καὶ ἀπειθεῖσ οἰκέται οὐχ; (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 34:4)
  • τῷ δ’ ἄρα καὶ αὐτῷ ἡ γυνή, ἐπίτεξ ἐοῦσα πᾶσαν ἡμέρην, τότε κωσ κατὰ δαίμονα τίκτει οἰχομένου τοῦ βουκόλου ἐσ πόλιν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 111 2:2)

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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