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κατασκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκοπή

Structure: κατασκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kataskope/w

Sense

  1. a viewing closely, spying

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατασκοπή κατασκοπᾱ́ κατασκοπαί
Genitive κατασκοπῆς κατασκοπαῖν κατασκοπῶν
Dative κατασκοπῇ κατασκοπαῖν κατασκοπαῖς
Accusative κατασκοπήν κατασκοπᾱ́ κατασκοπᾱ́ς
Vocative κατασκοπή κατασκοπᾱ́ κατασκοπαί

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

  • νῦν δὲ προαισθόμενοσ τὴν ἔφοδον αὐτῶν ὁ ὕπατοσ διὰ τῶν ἀποσταλέντων ἐπὶ τὰσ κατασκοπάσ, ἀνακλήσει ταχείᾳ τοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ προνομαῖσ ἐσκεδασμένουσ ἀναλαβών, τάξιν αὐτοῖσ ἀπέδωκε τὴν εἰσ πόλεμον ἁρμόττουσαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 82 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. a viewing closely

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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