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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

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

  • ἐκ δὲ Ἀμισοῦ πρὸσ τὴν ἰσημερινὴν ἀνατολὴν φερομένῳ πρῶτον μὲν ἡ Κολχίσ ἐστιν, ἔπειτα ἡ ἐπὶ τὴν Ὑρκανίαν θάλατταν ὑπέρθεσισ καὶ ἡ ἐφεξῆσ ἡ ἐπὶ Βάκτρα καὶ τοὺσ ἐπέκεινα Σκύθασ ὁδὸσ δεξιὰ ἔχοντι τὰ ὄρη· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 5:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ ἀφεῖσι τὸ Λούγδουνον καὶ τὴν ὑπερκειμένην χώραν ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ Ποινίνῳ πάλιν ἐκτροπὴ διαβάντι τὸν Ῥοδανὸν ἢ τὴν λίμνην τὴν Λημένναν εἰσ τὰ Ἐλουηττίων πεδία, κἀντεῦθεν εἰσ Σηκοανοὺσ ὑπέρθεσισ διὰ τοῦ Ιὄρα ὄρουσ καὶ εἰσ Λίγγονασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 22:5)
  • διττὸσ δ’ ἐστίν, ὁ μὲν ἔχων εἰσ τὸ πρὸσ τῇ Ἀραβίᾳ καὶ τῇ Γάζῃ μέροσ, ὃν Αἰλανίτην προσαγορεύουσιν ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν αὐτῷ πόλεωσ, ὁ δ’ εἰσ τὸ πρὸσ Αἰγύπτῳ κατὰ τὴν Ἡρώων πόλιν, εἰσ ὃν ἐκ Πηλουσίου ἡ ὑπέρθεσισ ἐπιτομωτέρα· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 59:4)
  • εἶθ’ ὑπέρθεσισ εἰσ Κοπτὸν τῆσ Θηβαί̈δοσ καμήλοισ ἐν διώρυγι τοῦ Νείλου κειμένην· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 47:7)
  • εἰ μὲν οὖν λυσιτελὴσ ἡ ὑπέρθεσίσ ἐστιν, ἡ παντελὴσ ἀπόστασισ αὐτῆσ ἐστι λυσιτελεστέρα· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, chapter 12 3:1)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἐκ Τεργέστε κώμησ Καρνικῆσ ὑπέρθεσίσ ἐστι διὰ τῆσ Ὄκρασ εἰσ ἕλοσ Λούγεον καλούμενον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 5 4:13)

Synonyms

  1. postponement

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

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