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ἱππάφεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππάφεσις ἱππάφεσεως

Structure: ἱππαφεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the starting-post in a race

Declension

Third 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

  • τὸ μὲν δὴ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ Κλεοίτασ ἐστὶν ἄφεσιν μηχανησάμενοσ, καὶ φρονῆσαί γε <φαίνεται> ἐπὶ τῷ εὑρήματι, ὡσ καὶ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπὶ ἀνδριάντι τῷ Ἀθήνῃσιν ἐπιγράψαι ὃσ τὴν ἱππάφεσιν <ἐν> Ὀλυμπίᾳ εὑρ́ατο πρῶτοσ,τεῦξέ με Κλεοίτασ υἱὸσ Ἀριστοκλέουσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. the starting-post in a race

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

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