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ἐπομβρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπομβρία

Structure: ἐπομβρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/pombros

Sense

  1. 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

  • Τῶν δὲ καταστασίων τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τὸ μὲν ὅλον οἱ αὐχμοὶ τῶν ἐπομβριῶν εἰσιν ὑγιεινότεροι, καὶ ἧσσον θανατώδεεσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 31.16)

Synonyms

  1. heavy rain

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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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