ΥΠΟΛΙΣΘΑΝΟΝΤΕΣ, υπολισθανοντες
YPOLISTHANONTES, ypolisthanontes
Sounds Like: hoo-po-lis-THA-non-tes
Translations: slipping away, sliding away, falling away, a slipping away, a sliding away, a falling away
From the root: ΥΠΟΛΙΣΘΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'slipping away' or 'sliding away'. It describes an action of gradual or involuntary movement downwards or out of place. It is a compound word formed from 'ὑπό' (hypo), meaning 'under' or 'away', and 'ὀλισθάνω' (olisthanō), meaning 'to slip' or 'to slide'. It can be used to describe people or things that are losing their footing or position.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5261 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:199
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΟΛΙΣΘΑΝΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΥΠΟΛΙΣΘΑΝΕΙ — slips away, slides away, falls away, slips, slides, falls
- ΥΠΟΛΙΣΘΑΝΩ — to slip away, to drift away, to fall away, to let slip
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