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ὑπεροπλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεροπλία

Structure: ὑπεροπλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(pe/roplos

Sense

  1. overweening confidence in arms, proud defiance, presumptuousness

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπεροπλία ὑπεροπλίᾱ ὑπεροπλίαι
Genitive ὑπεροπλίᾱς ὑπεροπλίαιν ὑπεροπλιῶν
Dative ὑπεροπλίᾱͅ ὑπεροπλίαιν ὑπεροπλίαις
Accusative ὑπεροπλίᾱν ὑπεροπλίᾱ ὑπεροπλίᾱς
Vocative ὑπεροπλίᾱ ὑπεροπλίᾱ ὑπεροπλίαι

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

  • Ζεὺσ γὰρ μεγάλησ γλώσσησ κόμπουσ ὑπερεχθαίρει, καὶ σφασ ἐσιδὼν πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένουσ χρυσοῦ καναχῆσ ὑπεροπλίαισ, παλτῷ ῥιπτεῖ πυρὶ βαλβίδων ἐπ’ ἄκρων ἤδη νίκην ὁρμῶντ’ ἀλαλάξαι. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests1)

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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