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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

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

  1. heavy rain

Related

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

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