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ὑποστροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποστροφή

Structure: ὑποστροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a turning about, wheeling round, turning round, turning sharply round, on the contrary

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

  • τηρῆσαί γε ἄξιόν ἐστι τὸ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 9:5)
  • διαφέρει δὲ σοφίασ φρόνησισ, ᾗ τοῦ θεωρητικοῦ πρὸσ τὸ πρακτικὸν καὶ παθητικὸν ὑποστροφῆσ καὶ σχέσεώσ τινοσ γενομένησ ὑφίσταται κατὰ· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 5 2:6)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ ἐκρίθη ἀμφοτέροισιν ὁμοῦ τὸ σύμπαν ἑπτακαιδεκαταίοισιν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 172)
  • οἷσι δ’ ἔκρινεν ἑβδομαίοισι, διέλειπεν ἑπτά‧ ἐκ δὲ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ ἔκρινε τριταίοισ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 175)
  • οἷσι δ’ ἔκρινεν ἑκταίοισι, διέλειπεν ἑπτά, ἐκ δὲ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ ἔκρινε τετάρτῃ, οἱο͂ν τῇ Ἀγλαί̈δου θυγατρί. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 178)

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

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