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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πολυκαρπία πολυκαρπίᾱ πολυκαρπίαι
Genitive πολυκαρπίᾱς πολυκαρπίαιν πολυκαρπιῶν
Dative πολυκαρπίᾱͅ πολυκαρπίαιν πολυκαρπίαις
Accusative πολυκαρπίᾱν πολυκαρπίᾱ πολυκαρπίᾱς
Vocative πολυκαρπίᾱ πολυκαρπίᾱ πολυκαρπίαι

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

  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν φυτοῖσ ποτὲ μὲν πολυκαρπίαι γίγνονται ποτὲ δ’ ἀκαρπίαι, καὶ ἐν ζῴοισ ποτὲ μὲν πολυγονίαι ποτὲ δὲ καὶ ἀγονίαι, καὶ ἐν θαλάττῃ εὐδίαι τε καὶ χειμῶνεσ, οὕτω καὶ ἐν βίῳ πολλαὶ καὶ ποικίλαι περιστάσεισ γιγνόμεναι πρὸσ τὰσ ἐναντίασ περιάγουσι τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ τύχασ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 51)
  • "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

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

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