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ὑφίζησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑφίζησις ὑφίζησεως

Structure: ὑφιζησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from u(fi/zw

Sense

  1. a settling or sinking

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑφίζησις ὑφιζήσει ὑφιζήσεις
Genitive ὑφιζήσεως ὑφιζήσοιν ὑφιζήσεων
Dative ὑφιζήσει ὑφιζήσοιν ὑφιζήσεσιν*
Accusative ὑφίζησιν ὑφιζήσει ὑφιζήσεις
Vocative ὑφίζησι ὑφιζήσει ὑφιζήσεις

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

  • ἀλλ’, ὡσ ἔφην, τῶν τοιούτων ἀπεργαστικόν ἐστι παθῶν τὸ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐδάφη ποτὲ μὲν ἐξαίρεσθαι ποτὲ δὲ ὑφίζησιν λαμβάνειν, οὐ τὸ τὰ μὲν εἶναι ὑψηλὰ τὰ δὲ ἧττον· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 10:10)

Synonyms

  1. a settling or sinking

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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