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ὑπέρθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρθεσις ὑπέρθεσεως

Structure: ὑπερθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(perti/qhmi

Sense

  1. postponement

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπέρθεσις ὑπερθέσει ὑπερθέσεις
Genitive ὑπερθέσεως ὑπέρθουιν ὑπερθέσεων
Dative ὑπερθέσει ὑπέρθουιν ὑπερθέσεσιν*
Accusative ὑπέρθεσιν ὑπερθέσει ὑπερθέσεις
Vocative ὑπέρθεσι ὑπερθέσει ὑπερθέσεις

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

  • ὑπερθέσεων δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ χειροτονίᾳ γιγνομένων ἐννόμων κατὰ ποικίλασ αἰτίασ, ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ ἐν τῷ τέωσ τὰσ Ἄλπεισ ὑπερέβαλε, Κουλλεῶνα πείσασ τὸν ἐκ Λεπίδου φύλακα αὐτῶν, ἐπί τε ποταμὸν ἦλθεν, ἔνθα ἐστρατοπεδευμένοσ ἦν ὁ Λέπιδοσ, καὶ οὔτε χάρακα περιεβάλετο οὔτε τάφρον ὡσ δὴ φίλῳ παραστρατοπεδεύων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 12 1:1)
  • τῶν δ’ ὑπερθέσεων τῶν ἐκ τῆσ Ἰταλίασ εἰσ τὴν ἔξω Κελτικὴν καὶ τὴν προσάρκτιον ἡ διὰ Σαλασσῶν ἐστιν ἄγουσα ἐπὶ Λούγδουνον· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. postponement

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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