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ὑψίπολις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψίπολις ὑψίπολιος

Structure: ὑψιπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. high or honoured in one's city

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

  • σοφόν τι τὸ μηχανόεν τέχνασ ὑπὲρ ἐλπίδ’ ἔχων τοτὲ μὲν κακόν, ἄλλοτ’ ἐπ’ ἐσθλὸν ἑρ́πει, νόμουσ γεραίρων χθονὸσ θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν, ὑψίπολισ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 21)

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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