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ὑπόστασιν (hypostasin)

ὑπόστασιν is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπόστασις, meaning “substance, foundation; confidence”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.135: … ς καὶ πλάτος μόνον ἔχον, βάθος δʼ οὔ· ταύτην δὲ Ποσειδώνιος ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ μετεώρων καὶ κατʼ ἐπίνοιαν καὶ καθʼ ὑπόστασιν ἀπολείπει. γραμμὴ δʼ ἐστὶν ἐπιφανείας πέρας ἢ μῆκος ἀπλατὲς ἢ τὸ μῆκος μόνον ἔχον. στιγμὴ δʼ ἐστὶ γραμμῆς πέρ …

All forms of ὑπόστασις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.