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κατάδυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάδυσις κατάδυσεως

Structure: καταδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: katadu/w

Sense

  1. a going down into, descent

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

  • πολλάκισ δὲ ἤδη ἐσ τὰ πεδία ἐκτραπέντεσ εἰ αἴσθοιντο ἐφομαρτοῦσαν κύνα ἀγαθήν, ὡσ ἐπισκιάζεσθαι ὑπ̓ αὐτῆσ, θαμινὰ ἐν τοῖσ ἐξελιγμοῖσ διαρρίψαντεσ αὐτὴν οἳ δὲ τρέπονται αὖ ἐπὶ τὰσ νάπασ, ἢ εἴ που κατάδυσιν γιγνώσκοιεν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 16 3:1)
  • διὸ δὴ καὶ Ἰφικράτη πολιορκοῦντα τὸν Στύμφαλον καὶ μηδὲν περαίνοντα ἐπιχειρῆσαι τὴν κατάδυσιν ἀποφράξαι σπόγγουσ πορισάμενον πολλούσ, παύσασθαι δὲ διοσημίασ γενομένησ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 8 5:8)
  • φασὶ δὲ τυπτόμενον τοῖσ κεραυνοῖσ εἶναι δὲ δράκοντα φεύγειν κατάδυσιν ζητοῦντα· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 14:5)

Synonyms

  1. a going down into

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

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