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ἐνθήκη

ἐνθήκη

Ancient Greek

Noun

ἐνθήκη • ‎(enthḗkē) f ‎(genitive ἐνθήκης); first declension

store
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.525
- Sm., Ge. 41.36
- 100 CE – 200 CE, Artemidorus, Oneirocritica 2.37
- 534 CE, Codex Justinianus 9.49.7.1
- 482 CE – 565 CE, Justinian, New Constitutions 128.8
capital
- Phryn. 199
- Arg.D. 36
insertion
- 500 CE – 565 CE, Procopius, The Buildings of Justinian 2.1
enclosure
- BGU 890.11

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐνθήκη; τῆς ἐνθήκης

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐνθήκη	τὼ ἐνθήκᾱ	αἱ ἐνθῆκαι
Genitive	τῆς ἐνθήκης	τοῖν ἐνθήκαιν	τῶν ἐνθηκῶν
Dative	τῇ ἐνθήκῃ	τοῖν ἐνθήκαιν	ταῖς ἐνθήκαις
Accusative	τὴν ἐνθήκην	τὼ ἐνθήκᾱ	τᾱ̀ς ἐνθήκᾱς
Vocative	ἐνθήκη	ἐνθήκᾱ	ἐνθῆκαι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

(capital): ἀφορμή ‎(aphormḗ)

Descendants

Latin: enthēca

References

ἐνθήκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
«ἐνθήκη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«ἐνθήκη» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)