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ἤπειρος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἤπειρος ἠπείρου

Structure: ἠπειρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. mainland, land
  2. The mainland of Greece
  3. continent
  4. inland areas (as opposed to coastal areas)

Declension

Second 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

  • καί κου καὶ τῇ ἠπείρῳ τῆσ Ἀραβίησ προσέσχον, τὴν δὲ ἄκρην, ἥντινα καταντικρὺ τῆσ ἔστιν ὅστισ ὑπερβαλὼν ἐπικάμψαι ἐσ τὸ ἐπὶ θάτερα δυνατὸσ ἐγένετο. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 43 9:1)
  • ὅκου Θασίοισιν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πολίων τῶν σφετέρων δεξαμένοισ τὴν Ξέρξεω στρατιὰν καὶ δειπνίσασι τετρακόσια τάλαντα ἀργυρίου Ἀντίπατροσ τῶν ἀστῶν ἀνὴρ δόκιμοσ ἐδαπάνησε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 272)
  • τὸ δὲ ἀντὶ τῶν δεικτικῶν τὰ ἐξεταστικὰ παραλαμβάνειν τῆσ ἀφελείασ, οἱο͂ν δεικτικὸν ἐνάργειαν ἔχον, ἐκεῖνοσ γὰρ ἄρχων μὲν παμπόλλων ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πόλεων, ἄρχων δὲ καὶ νήσων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 14:4)
  • καὶ τὸ μερικῶσ δὲ εἰπεῖν τὰ τῶν βαρβάρων, καὶ οὐχ οἱ βάρβαροι καὶ τοῦτο τῆσ ἀφελείασ, οἱο͂ν ὅστισ ἄρχων μὲν παμπόλλων ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πόλεων, ἄρχων δὲ καὶ νήσων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 26:6)
  • "οὐδέποτε πρότερον ἐν οὐδενὶ τόπῳ κυάμων Αἰγυπτίων οὔτε σπαρέντων οὔτε εἰ σπείρειέ τισ τικτομένων εἰ μὴ κατὰ Αἴγυπτον, ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλέωσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Πύρρου παρὰ τὸν Θύαμιν ποταμὸν τῆσ ἐν Ἠπείρῳ Θεσπρωτίασ ἐν ἕλει τινὶ συνέβη φυῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 31)

Synonyms

  1. The mainland of Greece

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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