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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπέρα ὑπέρᾱ ὑπέραι
Genitive ὑπέρᾱς ὑπέραιν ὑπερῶν
Dative ὑπέρᾱͅ ὑπέραιν ὑπέραις
Accusative ὑπέρᾱν ὑπέρᾱ ὑπέρᾱς
Vocative ὑπέρᾱ ὑπέρᾱ ὑπέραι

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

  • 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)
  • ἐν δ’ ἱστὸν θῆκεν, λαίφεσι δὲ λινέοισ σοῦσ’ ἐτίθει παντοῖα θεὰ πόδασ ἠδὲ κάλωασ, ἐν δ’ ὑπέρασ στρεπτὰσ ὅπλα τε πάντα νέωσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other88)
  • ἐν δ’ ὑπέρασ τε κάλουσ τε πόδασ τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ, μοχλοῖσιν δ’ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν εἰσ ἅλα δῖαν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 24:21)

Synonyms

  1. an upper rope

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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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