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ἐπίτονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτονος ἐπίτονον

Structure: ἐπιτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pitei/nw

Sense

on the stretch, strained, a rope for stretching or tightening, the back-stay
the sinews of the shoulder and arm

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἐπίτονος	ἐπίτονον
	Genitive	ἐπιτόνου	ἐπιτόνου
	Dative	ἐπιτόνῳ	ἐπιτόνῳ
	Accusative	ἐπίτονον	ἐπίτονον
	Vocative	ἐπίτονε	ἐπίτονον
Dual	N/A/V	ἐπιτόνω	ἐπιτόνω
Dual	G/D	ἐπιτόνοιν	ἐπιτόνοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἐπίτονοι	ἐπίτονα
	Genitive	ἐπιτόνων	ἐπιτόνων
	Dative	ἐπιτόνοις	ἐπιτόνοις
	Accusative	ἐπιτόνους	ἐπίτονα
	Vocative	ἐπίτονοι	ἐπίτονα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἐπίτονος ἐπιτόνου	ἐπιτονώτερος ἐπιτονωτέρου	ἐπιτονώτατος ἐπιτονωτάτου
Adverb	ἐπιτόνως	ἐπιτονώτερον	ἐπιτονώτατα

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

ἐπίτονοσ τετάνυστο βοὸσ ἶφι κταμένοιο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 32 3:3)
πολλάκισ δ’ ἐν τῷ σώματι διακριθείσησ σαρκὸσ πνεῦμα ἐγγενόμενον καὶ ἀδυνατοῦν ἔξω πορευθῆναι τὰσ αὐτὰσ τοῖσ ἐπεισεληλυθόσιν ὠδῖνασ παρέσχεν, μεγίστασ δέ, ὅταν περὶ τὰ νεῦρα καὶ τὰ ταύτῃ φλέβια περιστὰν καὶ ἀνοιδῆσαν τούσ τε ἐπιτόνουσ καὶ τὰ συνεχῆ νεῦρα οὕτωσ εἰσ τὸ ἐξόπισθεν κατατείνῃ τούτοισ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 442:1)
αὐτὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐπίτονοσ βέβλητο, βοὸσ ῥινοῖο τετευχώσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 50:11)
πολλοὶ καιροὶ πολιτείασ λύσεώσ εἰσιν, καθάπερ νεὼσ ἢ ζῴου τινόσ, οὓσ ἐντόνουσ τε καὶ ὑποζώματα καὶ νεύρων ἐπιτόνουσ, μίαν οὖσαν φύσιν διεσπαρμένην, πολλαχοῦ πολλοῖσ ὀνόμασιν προσαγορεύομεν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 30:2)

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

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