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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑποστροφή ὑποστροφᾱ́ ὑποστροφαί
Genitive ὑποστροφῆς ὑποστροφαῖν ὑποστροφῶν
Dative ὑποστροφῇ ὑποστροφαῖν ὑποστροφαῖς
Accusative ὑποστροφήν ὑποστροφᾱ́ ὑποστροφᾱ́ς
Vocative ὑποστροφή ὑποστροφᾱ́ ὑποστροφαί

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

  • ἐγὼ δ’ εὐθὺσ ὀξείᾳ χρησάμενοσ ὑποστροφῇ μετὰ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ ὑπήντησα τοῖσ βασιλικοῖσ καὶ εἰσ φυγὴν ἔτρεψα. (Flavius Josephus, 474:1)
  • ὅπου δὲ προϊόντοσ τοῦ λόγου ὑποστροφὴ γέγονε καὶ ὥσπερ τι πρὸσ τὴν ἀκοὴν ἀντέστη ἐκ τῆσ ἐγκοπῆσ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν ὑποστροφήν, ἐνταῦθα ἀγωνιστικὸν τὸ σχῆμα καὶ λόγοσ ἤδη τῷ ῥυθμῷ πολιτικώτεροσ γέγονεν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 8:2)
  • καὶ ἡ ὑποστροφή, αὐταὶ γὰρ τούτου ὄζουσι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 9:3)
  • τηρῆσαί γε ἄξιόν ἐστι τὸ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 9:5)
  • οἷσι δ’ ἔκρινεν ἑβδομαίοισιν, διέλειπεν ἕξ‧ ὑποστροφή‧ ἐκ δὲ τῆσ ὑποστροφῆσ ἔκρινεν ἑβδομαίοισι ‐‐ Φανοκρίτῳ, ὃσ κατέκειτο παρὰ Γνάθωνι τῷ γναφεῖ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 185)
  • ἔστι δὲ οἷσιν ἔκρινεν ἑνδεκαταίοισ, ὑποστροφὴ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκαταίοισ, ἔκρινε τελέωσ εἰκοστῇ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 189)

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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