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ὑποχώρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποχώρησις ὑποχώρησεως

Structure: ὑποχωρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a going back, retirement, retreat
  2. a retiring-place, retreat

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐσῶν δὲ πεδινῶν τῶν ὑποχωρήσεων, καὶ τούτων οἱ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν θηρίων καὶ τῶν ἱππέων ἀπώλλυντο, πεντακόσιοι δ’ ἴσωσ οἱ μετὰ Μάρκου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ φυγόντεσ μετ’ ὀλίγον ὑποχείριοι γενόμενοι σὺν αὐτῷ ’κείνῳ πάντεσ ἐζωγρήθησαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 34 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a going back

  2. a retiring-place

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

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