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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

  • πολυκαρπίασ ἀλλ’ ἀδιαφόρων καὶ ἀνωφελῶν τοῖσ λαμβάνουσι; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 32 5:1)
  • καὶ πολλάκισ μὲν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ τῶν αὐτοῖσ μελλόντων ἀπαντήσεσθαι κατὰ τὸν βίον προλέγοντεσ ἐπιτυγχάνουσιν, οὐκ ὀλιγάκισ δὲ καρπῶν φθορὰσ ἢ τοὐναντίον πολυκαρπίασ, ἔτι δὲ νόσουσ κοινὰσ ἀνθρώποισ ἢ βοσκήμασιν ἐσομένασ προσημαίνουσι, σεισμούσ τε καὶ κατακλυσμοὺσ καὶ κομητῶν ἀστέρων ἐπιτολὰσ καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ἀδύνατον ἔχειν δοκοῦντα τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν, ἐκ πολλοῦ χρόνου παρατηρήσεωσ γεγενημένησ, προγινώσκουσι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 81 5:1)

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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