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νυκτοπορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτοπορία

Structure: νυκτοπορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a night-journey, night-march

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

  • "ὦ Θράσυλλε, μὴ τοῦτο μὲν αἱ νυκτομαχίαι καὶ νυκτοπορίαι τῶν μεγάλων στρατοπέδων ἐλέγχουσιν, οὐδὲν ἧττον ἠχωδεστέρασ ποιοῦσαι τὰσ φωνάσ, καίπερ ἐν ταραχῇ καὶ σάλῳ τοῦ ἀέροσ ὄντοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. a night-journey

Related

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

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