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ὑπτιασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπτιασμός ὑπτιασμοῦ

Structure: ὑπτιασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from u(ptia/zw

Sense

  1. a laying oneself backwards

Declension

Second 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

  • τὴν μὲν οὖν γε σύντονον κίνησιν τῆσ ὀρχηστικῆσ καὶ στροφὰσ αὐτῆσ καὶ περιαγωγὰσ καὶ πηδήματα καὶ ὑπτιασμοὺσ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ τερπνὰ εἶναι συμβέβηκεν ὁρῶσιν, τοῖσ δὲ ἐνεργοῦσιν αὐτοῖσ ὑγιεινότατα· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 71:3)

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

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