Hellas Alive Dictionary - επομβρια

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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

Ἀναξιμένησ ξηρότητα καὶ ὑγρότητα τῆσ γῆσ αἰτίαν τῶν σεισμῶν, ὧν τὴν μὲν αὐχμοὶ γεννῶσι τὴν δ’ ἐπομβρίαι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:1)
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)
τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα ἐπὶ τοῖσ σεισμοῖσ, ὅσοι μεγέθει τε ὑπερήρκασι καὶ ἐπὶ μήκιστον διικνοῦνται τῆσ γῆσ, προσημαίνειν ὁ θεὸσ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ὡσ τὸ ἐπίπαν εἰώθεν ‐ ἢ γὰρ ἐπομβρίαι συνεχεῖσ ἢ αὐχμοὶ πρὸ τῶν σεισμῶν συμβαίνουσιν ἐπὶ χρόνον πλείονα, καὶ ὁ ἀὴρ παρὰ τὴν ἑκάστοτε τοῦ ἔτουσ ὡρ́αν χειμῶνόσ τε γίνεται καυματωδέστεροσ καὶ ἐν θέρει μετὰ ἀχλύοσ μᾶλλον ὁ κύκλοσ παρέχεται τοῦ ἡλίου τὴν χρόαν παρὰ τὸ εἰωθὸσ ἤτοι ἐσ τὸ ἐρυθρότερον ἢ καὶ ἡσυχῇ ῥέπουσαν ἐσ τὸ μελάντερον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 11:1)
ἐν μὲν οὖν ταῖσ ἐπομβρίαισ ἀσφαλεῖσ τὰσ καταφυγὰσ εἶχον, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ αὐχμοῖσ ἡλίσκοντο ῥᾳδίωσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 3 10:7)
εἶθ’ ὑπώρειαι σπιλαδώδεισ μέχρι τῆσ θαλάττησ, τοῖσ ἐτησίαισ μάλιστα καὶ ταῖσ τότε ἐπομβρίαισ ἀβοήθητον παρέχουσαι τὸν κίνδυνον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 35:23)

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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