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κατευχή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατευχή

Structure: κατευχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a prayer, vow

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

  • ὡσ οὖν ἐπιβλέψαντι τὴν φάλαγγα τῷ Μαρκέλλῳ ταῦτα τῶν ὅπλων ἔδοξε κάλλιστα καὶ κατὰ τούτων ὑπέλαβε πεποιῆσθαι τῷ θεῷ τὴν κατευχήν, ὡρ́μησεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ τῷ δόρατι διακόψασ τὸν θώρακα καὶ συνεπερείσασ τῇ ῥύμῃ τοῦ ἵππου ζῶντα μὲν αὐτὸν περιέτρεψε, δευτέραν δὲ καὶ τρίτην πληγὴν ἐνεὶσ εὐθὺσ ἀπέκτεινεν. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 7 2:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα τὴν Μήδειάν φασι τοῦ μὲν τὸ σῶμα κατακόπτειν ἢ καθέψειν ἀποστῆναι, προσποιησαμένην δὲ δεῖν πρότερον εὐχὰσ ποιήσασθαι τῇ σελήνῃ, τὰσ μὲν παρθένουσ ἀναβιβάσαι μετὰ λαμπάδων ἐπὶ τὸ μετεωρότατον τέγοσ τῶν βασιλείων, αὐτὴν δὲ τῇ Κολχίδι διαλέκτῳ κατευχήν τινα μακρὰν διερχομένην ἐγχρονίζειν, ἀναστροφὴν διδοῦσαν τοῖσ μέλλουσι ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἐπίθεσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 52 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a prayer

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

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