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νησομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νησομαχία

Structure: νησομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xh

Sense

  1. an island-fight

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νησομαχία νησομαχίᾱ νησομαχίαι
Genitive νησομαχίᾱς νησομαχίαιν νησομαχιῶν
Dative νησομαχίᾱͅ νησομαχίαιν νησομαχίαις
Accusative νησομαχίᾱν νησομαχίᾱ νησομαχίᾱς
Vocative νησομαχίᾱ νησομαχίᾱ νησομαχίαι

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

  • ἔστησαν δὲ καὶ τρόπαιον τῆσ νησομαχίασ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ τοῦ κήτουσ μίαν τῶν πολεμίων νήσων ἀνασταυρώσαντεσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 42:7)

Synonyms

  1. an island-fight

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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