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ὑπέρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρα

Structure: ὑπερ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(pe/r

Sense

  1. an upper rope, the braces

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

  • Καὶ κηρὸν ὡσ ἐπιπλάσαι τοῦ σκαφιδίου τὰ ἀνεῳγότα καὶ ἥλουσ δὲ καὶ καλώδιον, ἀφ̓ οὗ τὴν ὑπέραν ἐποίησασ, δύο δραχμῶν ἅπαντα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • πῖν’ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ’ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεισ οὐδ’ ἱερὰν Ὑπέραν, ὅθι γ’ ἄτρυγον οἶνον ἔπινεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 56 3:4)
  • ὕστερον δὲ τῶν περὶ Ἄνθον καὶ Ὑπέραν αὐτόθι κατοικούντων, Ἀνθηδονίαν καὶ Ὑπέρειαν ἐκάλουν τὴν νῆσον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 19 1:2)
  • εἶχε δὲ ὁ χρησμὸσ οὕτωσ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ φησί, πῖν’ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεισ οὐδ’ ἱερὰν Ὑπέραν, ὅθι γ’ ἄτρυγον οἶνον ἔπινεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 19 1:3)
  • ὁ σε Μνασιγείτων φησὶν Ὑπέρασ ἀδελφὸν ὄντα τὸν Ἄνθον ἔτι νήπιον ἀπολέσθαι, καὶ τὴν Ὑπέραν κατὰ ζήτησιν αὐτοῦ πλανώμενον εἰσ Φερὰσ πρὸσ Ἄκαστον ἐλθεῖν, ὅπου κατὰ τύχην ὁ Ἄνθοσ ἐδούλευεν οἰνοχοεῖν τεταγμένοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 19 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. an upper rope

Related

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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