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ὑπάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπάτη

Structure: ὑπατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the lowest note

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

  • ἔσται γὰρ τὰ δώδεκα πρὸσ μὲν τὰ ἐννέα διὰ τεσσάρων ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ παραμέσην, πρὸσ δὲ τὰ ὀκτὼ διὰ πέντε ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ μέσην, πρὸσ δὲ τὰ σ’ διὰ πασῶν ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 13 5:1)
  • μέσην τὰ δὲ δώδεκα κατὰ νήτην τὰ δ’ ἓξ καθ’ ὑπάτην. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 9:1)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ αὐλῶν ὁ μείζων βαρύτερον φθέγξεται ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην, τῶν δὲ χορδῶν ἡ τῷ διπλασίῳ κατατεινομένη βάρει τῆσ ἑτέρασ ὀξύτερον ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 17 6:1)
  • καὶ ὅνπερ ἡ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην ἐν μουσικῇ λόγον ἔχει, τοῦτον ἡ Λυσίου λέξισ ἐν πολιτικῇ διαλέκτῳ πρὸσ τὴν Θουκυδίδου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 2 2:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τὸν Λεοντίδην καὶ τὸν Ὑπάτην ταχθέντεσ ἐγγὺσ ἀλλήλων οἰκοῦντασ, ἐν ἱματίοισ ἐξῄεσαν ἔχοντεσ οὐδὲν ἕτερον τῶν ὅπλων ἢ μάχαιραν ἕκαστοσ ἑ̓ν δὲ τούτοισ ἦν καὶ Πελοπίδασ καὶ Δαμοκλείδασ καὶ Κηφισόδωροσ̓· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 30 1:2)

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

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