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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

  • 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)
  • τῇδέ μοι δοκέει καλέεσθαι διαβήτησ ἐπίκλησιν, ὁκοῖόντι διαβήτησ ἐὼν, οὕνεκεν ἐν τῷ σκήνεϊ τὸ ὑγρὸν οὐ μίμνει, ἀλλὰ ὅκωσ διαβάθρσῃ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐσ ἔξοδον χρέεται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 57)

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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