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ἀρβύλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρβύλη

Structure: ἀρβυλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a strong shoe or half-boot

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • σὺ δ’ εἰσ ἴχνοσ βᾶσ’ ἀρβύλησ σκέψαι βάσιν εἰ σύμμετροσ σῷ ποδὶ γενήσεται, τέκνον. (Euripides, episode 2:5)
  • σῖγα σῖγα, λεπτὸν ἴχνοσ ἀρβύλησ τίθετε, μὴ κτυπεῖτ’. (Euripides, choral, strophe 11)
  • σίγα σῖγα, λευκὸν ἴχνοσ ἀρβύλησ τίθετε, μὴ κτυπεῖτ’· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1132)

Synonyms

  1. a strong shoe or half-boot

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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