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ὑποφορά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποφορά

Structure: ὑποφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(pofe/rw

Sense

  1. a holding under, putting forward

Declension

First 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

  • προκεχωρηκότων δὲ τοῖσ Λακεδαιμονίοισ ὥστε Θηβαίουσ μὲν καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ Βοιωτοὺσ παντάπασιν ἐπ’ ἐκείνοισ εἶναι, Κορινθίουσ δὲ πιστοτάτουσ γεγενῆσθαι, Ἀργείουσ δὲ τεταπεινῶσθαι διὰ τὸ μηδὲν ἔτι ὠφελεῖν αὐτοὺσ τῶν μηνῶν τὴν ὑποφοράν, Ἀθηναίουσ δὲ ἠρημῶσθαι, τῶν δ’ αὖ συμμάχων κεκολασμένων οἳ δυσμενῶσ εἶχον αὐτοῖσ, παντάπασιν ἤδη καλῶσ καὶ ἀσφαλῶσ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐδόκει αὐτοῖσ κατεσκευάσθαι. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 36:1)

Synonyms

  1. a holding under

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

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