ἐφ' οὖ | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

ἐπί is a preposition (also used adverb) meaning on, upon, or over; at or near; and with motion, onto or toward (often against). It governs genitive or dative for static senses and accusative for motion; it also serves as the prefix epi- in compounds.

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἐφ' οὖ"

Ἐφ: {'part_of_speech': 'preposition', 'dictionary_form': 'ἐπί', 'function': "governs the genitive here; elided form before a vowel (ἐφ' < ἐπὶ)", 'case_governed': 'genitive'}

Οὖ: {'part_of_speech': 'pronoun', 'type': 'relative pronoun (from ὅς, ἥ, ὅ)', 'case': 'genitive', 'number': 'singular', 'gender': 'neuter'}

Related Forms of ἐπί

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Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

Epi preposition ἐπι preposition ἐπὶ preposition epi preposition ἐφ preposition (enclitic form) ἐφ' preposition (contracted form)

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