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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

  • "ἐνθουσιασμοῦ δὲ τὸ μαντικὸν ἐξ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐπιπνοίασ καὶ κατοχῆσ, τὸ δὲ βακχεῖον ἐκ Διονύσου, κἀπὶ Κυρβάντεσι χορεύσατε φησὶ Σοφοκλῆσ τὰ γὰρ μητρῷα καὶ πανικὰ κοινωνεῖ τοῖσ βακχικοῖσ ὀργιασμοῖσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:6)
  • "ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ κοιλίασ ἔγραφε τὰ σχήματα τῇ στλεγγίδι, καὶ λουόμενοσ ὥσ φασιν ἐκ τῆσ ὑπερχύσεωσ ἐννοήσασ τὴν τοῦ στεφάνου μέτρησιν οἱο͂ν ἔκ τινοσ κατοχῆσ ἢ ἐπιπνοίασ ἐξήλατο βοῶν εὑρ́ηκα, καὶ τοῦτο πολλάκισ φθεγγόμενοσ ἐβάδιζεν. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 1117)
  • ὅσοι δὲ ἄνευ δαιμονίου κατοχῆσ καὶ ἐπιπνοίασ λόγουσ τινὰσ ὡσ ἀληθεῖσ παρ’ αὑτῶν ἐκόμισαν εἰσ τὸν βίον ἀτόπουσ καὶ πονηρούσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 69:2)
  • θορυβουμένων δὲ τῶν μάντεων ὡσ ἐπὶ συμβόλῳ κατοχῆσ, Πτολεμαῖον τὸν Λάγου παραπέμποντα εἰπεῖν ἀσφαλείασ τὴν ἄγκυραν, οὐ κατοχῆσ εἶναι σύμβολον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 5:7)

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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