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βατίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βατίς

Structure: βατιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the skate, ray

Declension

Third 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

  • Νόθιππον δὲ τὸν τραγῳδιοποιόν, ὃν Ἕρμιπποσ ἐν ταῖσ Μοίραισ φησὶν εἰ δ’ ἦν τὸ γένοσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τῶν νῦν τοιόνδε μάχεσθαι, καὶ βατὶσ αὐτῶν ἡγεῖτ’ ὀπτὴ μεγάλη καὶ πλευρὸν ὑειόν, τοὺσ μὲν ἄρ’ ἄλλουσ οἰκουρεῖν χρῆν, πέμπειν δὲ Νόθιππον ἑκόντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 331)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀλωπεκίασ ὅμοιόσ ἐστι τῇ γεύσει τῷ χερσαίῳ ζῴῳ, διὸ καὶ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ἔτυχε, καὶ ἡ βατὶσ δὲ εὔστομοσ, ἡ δὲ ἀστερία βατὶσ ἁπαλωτέρα καὶ εὔχυλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 1:5)
  • ἐπ’ αὐτῷ δ’ ἄλλο παρῆλθε τόσον, βατὶσ δ’ ἐνέησ ἰσόκυκλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 1:4)
  • ἡ βατίσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 81 4:18)

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

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