ἐφέδρα
Ancient Greek
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pʰé.draː/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈpʰe.dra/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈɸe.ðra/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈfe.ðra/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈfe.ðra/
 
Noun
    
ἐφέδρᾱ • (ephédrā) f (genitive ἐφέδρᾱς); first declension
- sitting by or before a place
 - siege, blockade
 - surface of a threshold
 - wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)
- Synonym: ἵππουρις (híppouris)
 
 
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐφέδρᾱ hē ephédrā  | 
τὼ ἐφέδρᾱ tṑ ephédrā  | 
αἱ ἐφέδραι hai ephédrai  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐφέδρᾱς tês ephédrās  | 
τοῖν ἐφέδραιν toîn ephédrain  | 
τῶν ἐφεδρῶν tôn ephedrôn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐφέδρᾳ têi ephédrāi  | 
τοῖν ἐφέδραιν toîn ephédrain  | 
ταῖς ἐφέδραις taîs ephédrais  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐφέδρᾱν tḕn ephédrān  | 
τὼ ἐφέδρᾱ tṑ ephédrā  | 
τᾱ̀ς ἐφέδρᾱς tā̀s ephédrās  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐφέδρᾱ ephédrā  | 
ἐφέδρᾱ ephédrā  | 
ἐφέδραι ephédrai  | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
    
- ἐφεδράζω (ephedrázō)
 - ἐφέδρανον (ephédranon)
 - ἐφεδρεία (ephedreía)
 - ἐφέδρευσις (ephédreusis)
 - ἐφεδρεύω (ephedreúō)
 - ἐφεδρήσσω (ephedrḗssō)
 - ἐφεδρίζω (ephedrízō)
 - ἐφεδρισμός (ephedrismós)
 - ἐφεδριστήρ (ephedristḗr)
 
Descendants
    
- → Translingual: Ephedra
 
Further reading
    
- “ἐφέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “ἐφέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - ἐφέδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 
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