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διαβήτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαβήτης

Structure: διαβητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: diabai/nw

Sense

  1. the compass, its outstretched legs

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

  • κανόνι γὰρ οἶμαι καὶ τόρνῳ χρῆται καὶ διαβήτῃ καὶ στάθμῃ καί τινι προσαγωγίῳ κεκομψευμένῳ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 273:6)

Synonyms

  1. the compass

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

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