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ὑπόβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόβασις ὑπόβασεως

Structure: ὑποβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(pobai/nw

Sense

  1. a going down: a crouching down

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπόβασις ὑποβάσει ὑποβάσεις
Genitive ὑποβάσεως ὑποβάσοιν ὑποβάσεων
Dative ὑποβάσει ὑποβάσοιν ὑποβάσεσιν*
Accusative ὑπόβασιν ὑποβάσει ὑποβάσεις
Vocative ὑπόβασι ὑποβάσει ὑποβάσεις

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 τούτων ἔνιοι ὠτώεντεσ, τρίποδα δὲ τὴν ὑπόβασιν ἔχοντεσ τρίποδεσ ὠνομάζοντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 6 2:9)
  • πλείουσ δὲ τετταράκοντα ἡμέρασ τοῦ θέρουσ διαμεῖναν τὸ ὕδωρ ἔπειθ’ ὑπόβασιν λαμβάνει κατ’ ὀλίγον, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν αὔξησιν ἔσχεν· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 8:14)
  • ἑκάστην δὲ χώραν ὁρ́οσ ἐπεῖχεν εἰσ ὑπόβασιν κατεσκευασμένοσ, ἐφ’ οἷσ ἐτετόρευτο πῇ μὲν λέων πῇ δὲ ταῦροσ καὶ ἀετόσ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν κιονίσκων ὁμοίωσ ἐξείργαστο τοῖσ κατὰ τὰ πλευρὰ τετορευμένοισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 105:2)
  • τοῦτο δὲ ποιῶν ἅμα γοργοτέραν τε καὶ ἰσχυροτέραν ἕξει τὴν ὑπόβασίν τε καὶ ἱππασίαν καὶ ἅπαντα βελτίων ἔσται ἑαυτοῦ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. a going down

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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