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κατοχή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατοχή

Structure: κατοχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: kate/xw

Sense

  1. a holding fast, detention
  2. possession by a spirit, inspiration

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

  • Ἄρεοσ γὰρ οὐ πάνυ μέτεστι γυναικί, ἡ δ’ ἐξ Ἔρωτοσ κατοχὴ προάγεταί τι τολμᾶν παρὰ φύσιν καὶ ἀποθνήσκειν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 17 21:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ τὰ πάντα ἐν τῇ κατοχῇ ἀληθεύουσα ἐφαίνετο, οὐκέτι ἀμελεῖσθαι ὑπ̓ Ἀλεξάνδρου, ἀλλ̓ εἶναι γὰρ τῇ Σύρᾳ πρόσοδον πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ νύκτωρ καὶ μεθ̓ ἡμέραν, καὶ καθεύδοντι πολλάκισ ἤδη ἐπιστῆναι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 13 5:4)
  • πνεύματοσ γὰρ κατοχῇ χρόνον ὑπομεῖναν διαφθείρεται, καθάπερ κωλυομένησ τῆσ τοῦ πνεύματοσ ἐκφορᾶσ ὑπὸ τῆσ προσπεσούσησ ταῖσ ἀναπνοαῖσ δυνάμεωσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 12 2:4)
  • τρίτη δὲ ἀπὸ Μουσῶν κατοχή τε καὶ μανία λαβοῦσα ἁπαλὴν καὶ ἄβατον ψυχὴν ἐγείρουσα κἀναβακχεύουσα κατά τε ᾠδὰσ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἄλλην ποίησιν μυρία τῶν παλαιῶν ἔργα κοσμοῦσα, τοὺσ ἐπιγιγνομένουσ παιδεύει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a holding fast

  2. possession by a spirit

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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