ἱκεσίας | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Supplication; a formal entreaty or act of seeking protection, especially as a suppliant under divine or legal sanction. Also the state or rite of being a suppliant.

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἱκεσίας"

Case: genitive

Number: singular

Gender: feminine

Declension: first declension (alpha-stem)

Note: Form corresponds to gen. sg. of ἱκεσία (‘supplication’); also formally identical to acc. pl. in some 1st-declension patterns, but the standard/most likely analysis of ἱκεσίας is gen. sg.

Related Forms of ἱκεσία

1 form discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

ἱκεσίην accusative, singular, feminine

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