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κατασκαφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκαφή

Structure: κατασκαφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kataska/ptw

Sense

  1. a rasing to the ground, destruction
  2. grave deep dug, the grave

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατασκαφή κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφαί
Genitive κατασκαφῆς κατασκαφαῖν κατασκαφῶν
Dative κατασκαφῇ κατασκαφαῖν κατασκαφαῖς
Accusative κατασκαφήν κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφᾱ́ς
Vocative κατασκαφή κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφαί

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

  • ὁ πέμπτοσ δ’ εὔχεται κατασκαφῇ Καπανεὺσ τὸ Θήβησ ἄστυ δῃώσειν πυρί· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:18)
  • εἰ γὰρ ὑμεῖσ ὑπὲρ ἀναστάσεωσ κινδυνεύσαντεσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπὶ κατασκαφῇ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ὑμῶν παραγεγενημένουσ ἀνεῖσθε τοῖσ θυμοῖσ, τί χρὴ νῦν ἡμᾶσ διατείνεσθαι τοὺσ μηδὲν ἠδικημένουσ; (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 28 3:2)
  • καὶ τίσ αὐτοὺσ τύχη μὴ προαδικηθέντασ ἐβιάσατο πολεμεῖν Συρακοσίοισ καὶ τὴν παρὰ πᾶσιν ἐπαινουμένην εἰρήνην ἀφέντασ ἐπὶ κατασκαφῇ παρεῖναι τῆσ ὑμετέρασ πόλεωσ; (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 29 4:3)
  • ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ τὰ ἀνθρωπικὰ πταίσματα, τοῦτό ἐστιν ἡ πολιορκία, τοῦτό ἐστι κατασκαφή, ὅταν τὰ δόγματα τὰ ὀρθὰ καθαιρῆται, ὅταν ἐκεῖνα διαφθείρηται. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 25:1)
  • ἀπόστασισ Λεσβίων ἀπὸ Ἀθηναίων καὶ Πλαταιῶν ἅλωσισ καὶ κατασκαφὴ ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, 34)
  • ἅλωσισ Τορώνησ καὶ κατασκαφὴ ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, 46)

Synonyms

  1. a rasing to the ground

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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