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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

  • 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)

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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