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ἐπιτροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτροπή

Structure: ἐπιτροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pitre/pw

Sense

  1. a reference
  2. against a guardian

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιτροπή ἐπιτροπᾱ́ ἐπιτροπαί
Genitive ἐπιτροπῆς ἐπιτροπαῖν ἐπιτροπῶν
Dative ἐπιτροπῇ ἐπιτροπαῖν ἐπιτροπαῖς
Accusative ἐπιτροπήν ἐπιτροπᾱ́ ἐπιτροπᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐπιτροπή ἐπιτροπᾱ́ ἐπιτροπαί

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

  • ἆρὰ γ’ ἄξιον τῇ χάριτι ταύτῃ παραβαλεῖν τὰσ πολυταλάντουσ ἐπιτροπὰσ καὶ διοικήσεισ τῶν ἐπαρχιῶν, ἃσ διώκοντεσ οἱ πολλοὶ γηράσκουσι πρὸσ ἀλλοτρίαισ θύραισ, τὰ οἴκοι προλιπόντεσ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 18 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a reference

  2. against a guardian

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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