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πολυκαρπία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυκαρπία

Structure: πολυκαρπι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/karpos

Sense

  1. abundance of fruit

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

  • "ὕλην δὲ καὶ καρποὺσ αὐτοῦ μὲν ὄμβροι τρέφουσιν, ἑτέρωθι δέ, ὥσπερ ἄνω περὶ Θήβασ παρ’ ὑμῖν καὶ Συήνην, οὐκ ὄμβριον ὕδωρ ἀλλὰ γηγενὲσ ἡ γῆ πίνουσα καὶ χρωμένη πνεύμασι καὶ δρόσοισ οὐκ ἂν ἐθελήσειεν, οἶμαι, τῇ πλεῖστον ὑομένῃ πολυκαρπία συμφέρεσθαι δι’ ἀρετήν τινα καὶ κρᾶσιν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2518)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἡ πολυκαρπία τρέφουσα τοῖσ τε ἀναστήμασι τῶν σωμάτων καὶ τοῖσ ὄγκοισ ὑπερφέροντασ κατασκευάζει· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 36 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. abundance of fruit

Related

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

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