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καταβοή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταβοή καταβοῆς

Structure: καταβο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an outcry against

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

  • τὸ δὲ φιλόκαινον καὶ τὰσ ἐκ τῆσ ταραχῆσ πλεονεξίασ διῶκον ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον συνελάμβανον, καταβοαί τ’ ἀλλήλων ἐγίνοντο καὶ χειροκρασίαι καὶ προέβη τὸ νεῖκοσ εἰσ λίθων βολάσ, καὶ τελευτῶντεσ ἐκράτησαν οἱ κακίουσ τῶν κρειττόνων, ὥστε τοὺσ πρέσβεισ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀπράκτουσ ἀπελθεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 6 10:1)
  • καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο λόγοι τ’ ἀσχήμονεσ ἐγένοντο εἰσ ἀλλήλουσ καὶ καταβοαὶ καὶ σωμάτων ὠθισμοί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 48 3:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πλείουσ τε ὁσημέραι συνεστρέφοντο καὶ πλείουσ ἦσαν αἱ καταβοαί, τηνικαῦτα δή φησιν περὶ αὐτῶν πρὸσ Ἀνιλαῖον τοῖσ τε πρῶτον γεγονόσιν ἐπιτιμῶν καὶ παύσασθαι τὸ λοιπὸν κελεύων τὴν ἄνθρωπον ἀποπεμψάμενον εἰσ τοὺσ συγγενεῖσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 413:1)

Synonyms

  1. an outcry against

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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