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ἐπιτολή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτολή

Structure: ἐπιτολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pite/llw II

Sense

  1. the rising of a star

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιτολή ἐπιτολᾱ́ ἐπιτολαί
Genitive ἐπιτολῆς ἐπιτολαῖν ἐπιτολῶν
Dative ἐπιτολῇ ἐπιτολαῖν ἐπιτολαῖς
Accusative ἐπιτολήν ἐπιτολᾱ́ ἐπιτολᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐπιτολή ἐπιτολᾱ́ ἐπιτολαί

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

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἐτησίαισ καὶ ἀδιαλείπτωσ νύκτωρ καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἐκχεῖσθαι καὶ λάβρουσ ἑώσ ἐπιτολῆσ ἀρκτούρου· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 34:3)
  • καὶ κυνὸσ ἐπιτολῆσ οὐθενὶ προσσχόντεσ τῶν λεγομένων ἔπλεον ἔξω πελάγιοι, σπουδάζοντέσ τινασ τῶν ἐν τῷ παράπλῳ πόλεισ τῇ τοῦ γεγονότοσ εὐτυχήματοσ φαντασίᾳ καταπληξάμενοι προσλαβέσθαι. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 37 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. the rising of a star

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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