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ὑποβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποβολή

Structure: ὑποβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: u(poba/llw

Sense

  1. a throwing or laying under
  2. a substitution by stealth, of supposititious children
  3. a suggesting, admonition
  4. the subject-matter

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑποβολή ὑποβολᾱ́ ὑποβολαί
Genitive ὑποβολῆς ὑποβολαῖν ὑποβολῶν
Dative ὑποβολῇ ὑποβολαῖν ὑποβολαῖς
Accusative ὑποβολήν ὑποβολᾱ́ ὑποβολᾱ́ς
Vocative ὑποβολή ὑποβολᾱ́ ὑποβολαί

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

  • τούτῳ γὰρ τῷ διαστήματι περιωρίσθω ἡμῖν ἡ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ πολυμαθία καὶ τὰ διὰ μέσου μάλιστα ἴστω, Οὐρανοῦ τομήν, Ἀφροδίτησ γονάσ, Τιτάνων μάχην, Διὸσ γένεσιν, Ῥέασ ἀπάτην, λίθου ὑποβολήν, Κρόνου δεσμά, τὸν τῶν τριῶν ἀδελφῶν κλῆρον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 37:2)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ἂν τὸν μηνυτὴν οὔτε τοὺσ μάρτυρασ κατασχεῖν ἐν πεντεκαίδεκα ἔτεσιν ἀπόρρητον τὴν ὑποβολήν, ἀλλ’ ἔτι πρότερον εἰπεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 34 5:2)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀνδρωθέντοσ τοῦ παιδόσ, ὁ μὲν Λάιοσ ἔκρινεν ἐπερωτῆσαι τὸν θεὸν περὶ τοῦ βρέφουσ τοῦ ἐκτεθέντοσ, ὁ δὲ Οἰδίπουσ μαθὼν παρά τινοσ τὴν καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ὑποβολήν, ἐπεχείρησεν ἐπερωτῆσαι τὴν Πυθίαν περὶ τῶν κατ’ ἀλήθειαν γονέων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 64 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing or laying under

  2. a suggesting

  3. the subject-matter

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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