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ἐπομβρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπομβρία

Structure: ἐπομβρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/pombros

Sense

heavy rain, abundance of wet, wet weather

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἐπομβρία	ἐπομβρίᾱ	ἐπομβρίαι
Genitive	ἐπομβρίᾱς	ἐπομβρίαιν	ἐπομβριῶν
Dative	ἐπομβρίᾱͅ	ἐπομβρίαιν	ἐπομβρίαις
Accusative	ἐπομβρίᾱν	ἐπομβρίᾱ	ἐπομβρίᾱς
Vocative	ἐπομβρίᾱ	ἐπομβρίᾱ	ἐπομβρίαι

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

μεταξύ τε προϊὼν ἀνέκρινέ με περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ πραγμάτων, τὰ πρῶτα μὲν ἐκεῖνα, πόσου νῦν ὁ πυρόσ ἐστιν ὤνιοσ ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, καὶ εἰ σφόδρα ὑμῶν ὁ πέρυσι χειμὼν καθίκετο, καὶ εἰ τὰ λάχανα δεῖται πλείονοσ ἐπομβρίασ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 24:1)
"ἐν γοῦν τῷ αἰγιαλῷ τῶν Μιτυληναίων οὔ φασι πρότερον εἶναι πρὶν ἢ γενομένησ ἐπομβρίασ τὸ σπέρμα κατενεχθῇ ἀπὸ Τιαρῶν τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ χωρίον ἐν ᾧ πολλὰ γίνεται, γίνεται δὲ ἔν τε τοῖσ αἰγιαλοῖσ μάλιστα καὶ ὅπου χώρα ὕπαμμοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52118)
καὶ δὴ κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, γενομένησ ἐπομβρίασ συνέβη τὸ ὕδωρ ἐμβαλεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 14:1)
καὶ μέντοι καὶ διὰ τοῦτο περιτραπεὶσ εἰσ ὕδερον κατῆλθεν εἰσ ἄστυ καὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν αἰνιγματωδῶσ ἐπυνθάνετο εἰ δύναιντ’ ἐξ ἐπομβρίασ αὐχμὸν ποιῆσαι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. a'. HRAKLEITOS 3:6)
τῆσ γὰρ παρὰ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἐπομβρίασ τῷ παρ’ ἑαυτοῖσ γινομένῳ καύματι μιγείσησ εἰκὸσ εὐκρατότατον γενέσθαι τὸν ἀέρα πρὸσ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τῶν πάντων ζωογονίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 10 5:1)

Synonyms

heavy rain
- βροχετός (a wetting, rain)
- νοτία (wet, rains)
- ὑετός (heavy rain)

κατακλυσμός (flood)
αὐχμός (drought)
ἀκαρπία (unfruitfulness)
ἀφορία (a not bearing)
Διοσημία (a sign from Zeus)
δεκαταῖος (on the tenth day)
ἀοίκητος (uninhabited)
φύραμα (that which is mixed)
ῥῆγμα (a breakage)
χωρισμός (separation)
κοίλωμα (a hollow)
ἑβδομαῖος (on the seventh day)
τεταρταῖος (on the fourth day)
πλοιάριον (a skiff)
ἄσκιος (shadowless)
τρίμηνος (of three months)
κύημα (that which is conceived)
πηγός (well put together)
δίωξις (chase)
Σιβύλλειος (Sibylline)
κάκωσις (ill-treatment)
ὑπόπετρος (somewhat rocky)
πρόρρησις (a foretelling)
περιώδυνος (exceeding painful)
ἐμπύημα (abscess)
φῦμα (a growth)
ἄφοδος (a going away)
ῥῆξις (breaking)
ἄμπωτις (a being sucked back)
ἀνάβασις (ascent)

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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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heavy rain

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