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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative διαβήτης διαβήτᾱ διαβῆται
Genitive διαβήτου διαβήταιν διαβητῶν
Dative διαβήτῃ διαβήταιν διαβήταις
Accusative διαβήτην διαβήτᾱ διαβήτᾱς
Vocative διαβῆτα διαβήτᾱ διαβῆται

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

  • κατὰ τῆσ τραπέζησ καταπάσασ λεπτὴν τέφραν κάμψασ ὀβελίσκον εἶτα διαβήτην λαβὼν ἐκ τῆσ παλαίστρασ θοἰμάτιον ὑφείλετο. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:39)
  • προσθεὶσ οὖν ἐγὼ τὸν κανόν’, ἄνωθεν τουτονὶ τὸν καμπύλον ἐνθεὶσ διαβήτην ‐ μανθάνεισ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:18)
  • στεφανηπλοκοῦντοσ ἐξ ἁπαλῶν καὶ ἀνθηρῶν ὀνομάτων μήτ’ αὖ πάλιν, ὡσ ὁ Πυθέασ τὸν Δημοσθένουσ ἔλεγεν, ἐλλυχνίων ὄζων καὶ σοφιστικῆσ περιεργίασ ἐνθυμήμασι πικροῖσ καὶ περιόδοισ πρὸσ κανόνα καὶ διαβήτην ἀπηκριβωμέναισ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 6 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the compass

Similar forms

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

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