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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

  • πυλὼν μὲν ὑψηλὸσ ἀναβάσεισ πλατείασ ἔχων, ὑπτίασ μᾶλλον ἢ ὀρθίασ πρὸσ τὴν τῶν ἀνιόντων εὐμάρειαν εἰσιόντα δὲ τοῦτον ἐκδέχεται κοινὸσ οἶκοσ εὐμεγέθησ, ἱκανὴν ἔχων ὑπηρέταισ καὶ ἀκολούθοισ διατριβήν, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ τὰ ἐσ τρυφὴν παρεσκευασμένα οἰκήματα βαλανείῳ δ’ οὖν καὶ ταῦτα πρεπωδέστατα, χαρίεσσαι καὶ φωτὶ πολλῷ καταλαμπόμεναι ὑποχωρήσεισ. (Lucian, (no name) 5:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ πεζὸν ἀμφοτέρων πλήθει τ’ ἀνθρώπων ὡσ μάλιστα ἦν καὶ ὁπλισμοῖσ ὁμοιότροπον, τάξεώσ τε κόσμῳ καὶ μάχησ ἐμπειρίᾳ κατά τ’ ἐπαγωγὰσ καὶ ὑποχωρήσεισ πληγάσ τ’ αὖ καὶ φυλακὰσ παραπλήσιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 67 5:3)
  • Ιοὐδαῖοι δ’ ἀεὶ σκεδαννύμενοι καὶ τάσ τε προσβολὰσ καὶ τὰσ ὑποχωρήσεισ ἀνέδην ποιούμενοι πολλάκισ φαντασίαν παρεῖχον ἀλλήλοισ πολεμίων· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 156:1)

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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