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καταβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταβολή

Structure: καταβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: kataba/llw

Sense

  1. a throwing or laying down
  2. a foundation, beginning
  3. a paying down
  4. a periodical attack of illness, a fit, access

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

  • θεῷ γὰρ ἡ τεκοῦσα μειχθῆναι λέγεται, καὶ καθάπερ τὸν Ἡρακλέα σπαρῆναί φασιν ἐν μακρᾷ νυκτί, τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐπισχεθείσησ παρὰ φύσιν καὶ τοῦ ἡλίου βραδύναντοσ, οὕτω περὶ τὴν Ῥωμύλου σπορὰν καὶ καταβολὴν τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλιπεῖν ἱστοροῦσι, ποιησάμενον ἀτρεκῆ σύνοδον πρὸσ σελήνην, ᾧπερ ὁ Ἄρησ θεὸσ ὢν τῇ Σιλβίᾳ θνητῇ συνῆλθε. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 8 1:2)
  • ἀναγράφουσιν δὲ χωρὶσ μὲν οὓσ δεῖ κατὰ πρυτανείαν ἑκάστην καταβάλλειν, εἰσ δέκα γραμματεῖα, χωρὶσ δὲ οὓσ τρὶσ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ, γραμματεῖον κατὰ τὴν καταβολὴν ἑκάστην ποιήσαντεσ, χωρὶσ δ’ οὓσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐνάτησ πρυτανείασ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 47 3:1)
  • κἄν τισ ἐλλίπῃ καταβολήν, ἐνταῦθ’ ἐγγέγραπται, καὶ διπλάσιον ἀνάγκη τὸ ἐλλειφθὲν καταβάλλειν ἢ δεδέσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα εἰσπράττειν ἡ βουλὴ καὶ δῆσαι κυρία κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ ἐστίν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 48 1:3)
  • ἔβλαψέ με Νικόβουλοσ ἐπιβουλεύσασ ἐμοὶ καὶ τῇ οὐσίᾳ τῇ ἐμῇ, ἀφελέσθαι κελεύσασ Ἀντιγένην τὸν ἑαυτοῦ οἰκέτην τὸ ἀργύριον τοῦ ἐμοῦ οἰκέτου, ὃ ἔφερεν καταβολὴν τῇ πόλει τοῦ μετάλλου, ὃ ἐγὼ ἐπριάμην ἐνενήκοντα μνῶν, καὶ αἴτιοσ ἐμοὶ γενόμενοσ ἐγγραφῆναι τὸ διπλοῦν τῷ δημοσίῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 32:1)
  • προσεῖχεν δὲ οὐδεὶσ τῶν νεωτεριζόντων, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ προσίεσαν οἱ λῃστρικοὶ καὶ τὴν τοῦ πολέμου καταβολὴν ἐνσκευαζόμενοι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 531:2)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing or laying down

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

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