αποστροφή | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

a turning away; a turning back. In rhetoric, an address turned aside from the main audience to speak directly to another person or thing (apostrophe).

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Grammatical Analysis

"αποστροφή"

Verb type: not a verb

Case: nominative

Number: singular

Gender: feminine

Declension: first declension (alpha/eta-stem)

Formation note: abstract noun in -ή from the verbal stem of ἀποστρέφω (‘turn away’)

Related Forms of ἀποστροφή

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Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

ἀποστροφή nominative, singular, feminine

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