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ὑπότασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπότασις ὑπότασεως

Structure: ὑποτασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(potei/nw

Sense

  1. extension, that stretch below

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπότασις ὑποτάσει ὑποτάσεις
Genitive ὑποτάσεως ὑποτάσοιν ὑποτάσεων
Dative ὑποτάσει ὑποτάσοιν ὑποτάσεσιν*
Accusative ὑπότασιν ὑποτάσει ὑποτάσεις
Vocative ὑπότασι ὑποτάσει ὑποτάσεις

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

  • χωροῦσι δ’ ὥστ’ ὄρνιθεσ ἀρθεῖσαι δρόμῳ πεδίων ὑποτάσεισ, αἳ παρ’ Ἀσωποῦ ῥοαῖσ εὔκαρπον ἐκβάλλουσι Θηβαίων στάχυν· (Euripides, episode, trochees 8:7)
  • Ἐν μέντοι τῷ ἄρθρῳ τῷ κάτω οὐχ ὁμοίη ἡ ὑπότασισ τοῦ ὀστέου τοῦ μακροτέρου‧ ἀνομοίωσ γὰρ ὁ ἀγκὼν καὶ ἡ ἰγνύη κάμπτεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.4)

Synonyms

  1. extension

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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