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ὑπώρεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπώρεια

Structure: ὑπωρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the foot of a mountain, the skirts of a mountain range

Declension

First 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

  • τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν συμβαλόντων εἰσ χεῖρασ ἅμα τῷ καιρῷ τῆσ μάχησ συνέπεσε σεισμόσ, ὑφ’ οὗ καὶ πόλεισ ἀνετράπησαν καὶ ῥεύματα ποταμῶν ἐξ ἕδρασ μετέστη καὶ κρημνῶν ὑπώρειαι περιρράγησαν. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 3 2:1)
  • εἶθ’ ὑπώρειαι σπιλαδώδεισ μέχρι τῆσ θαλάττησ, τοῖσ ἐτησίαισ μάλιστα καὶ ταῖσ τότε ἐπομβρίαισ ἀβοήθητον παρέχουσαι τὸν κίνδυνον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 35:23)

Synonyms

  1. the foot of a mountain

Related

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

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