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ὑπόφαυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόφαυσις ὑπόφαυσεως

Structure: ὑποφαυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. a light shewing through a small hole: a narrow opening

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπόφαυσις ὑποφαύσει ὑποφαύσεις
Genitive ὑποφαύσεως ὑποφαύσοιν ὑποφαύσεων
Dative ὑποφαύσει ὑποφαύσοιν ὑποφαύσεσιν*
Accusative ὑπόφαυσιν ὑποφαύσει ὑποφαύσεις
Vocative ὑπόφαυσι ὑποφαύσει ὑποφαύσεις

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 αἱ θυρίδεσ δικτυωταί, ὑποφαύσεισ κύκλῳ τοῖσ τρισὶν ὥστε διακύπτειν. καὶ ὁ οἶκοσ καὶ τὰ πλησίον ἐξυλωμένα κύκλῳ καὶ τὸ ἔδαφοσ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐδάφουσ ἕωσ τῶν θυρίδων, καὶ αἱ θυρίδεσ ἀναπτυσσόμεναι τρισσῶσ εἰσ τὸ διακύπτειν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 41:16)
  • διέκπλοον δὲ ὑπόφαυσιν κατέλιπον τῶν πεντηκοντέρων καὶ τριηρέων, ἵνα καὶ ἐσ τὸν Πόντον ἔχῃ ὁ βουλόμενοσ πλέειν πλοίοισι λεπτοῖσι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου ἔξω. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 36 3:2)

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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