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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

  • οἵ γε μὴν Ἀργεῖοι, εἰδότεσ φρουράν τε πεφασμένην ἐφ’ ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ γιγνώσκοντεσ ὅτι ἡ τῶν μηνῶν ὑποφορὰ οὐδὲν ἔτι σφᾶσ ὠφελήσει, καὶ οὗτοι εἰσ τὴν εἰρήνην πρόθυμοι ἦσαν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 36:3)

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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