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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱππάφεσις ἱππαφέσει ἱππαφέσεις
Genitive ἱππαφέσεως ἱππάφουιν ἱππαφέσεων
Dative ἱππαφέσει ἱππάφουιν ἱππαφέσεσιν*
Accusative ἱππάφεσιν ἱππαφέσει ἱππαφέσεις
Vocative ἱππάφεσι ἱππαφέσει ἱππαφέσεις

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

  • "Φιλύρα γέ τοι ἐπαύσατο πορνευομένη ἔτι νέα οὖσα καὶ Σκιώνη καὶ Ἱππάφεσισ καὶ Θεόκλεια καὶ Ψαμάθη καὶ Λαγίσκα καὶ Ἄνθεια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 512)
  • "Φιλύρα γέ τοι ἐπαύσατο πορνευομένη ἔτι νέα οὖσα καὶ Σκιώνη καὶ Ἱππάφεσισ καὶ Θεόκλεια καὶ Ψαμάθη καὶ Λαγίσκα καὶ Ἄνθεια καὶ Ἀριστόκλεια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 62 3:2)
  • ἡ δὲ λοιπὴ τῶν ἐλαττόνων πλευρῶν αἴθριοσ ἀνειμένη ψαλιδωτὰσ ἱππαφέσεισ ἔχει διὰ μιᾶσ ὕσπληγοσ ἅμα πάσασ ἀνοιγομένασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 68 4:2)
  • 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

Similar forms

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

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