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διβολία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διβολία

Structure: διβολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from di/bolos

Sense

  1. a double-edged lance, halbert

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

  • ἀκόντισμα δὲ ἦν ἑκάστῳ διβολία· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 25 7:2)
  • χλαμύδοσ ἔθιγε μόνον, οἱ δὲ φίλοι καλὸν, καλῶσ ἐν τῇ χλαμύδι καὶ τῇ διβολίᾳ συναρπάσαντεσ εἰσ τὴν οἰκίαν παρήνεγκαν ἀθρόοι καὶ τὰσ θύρασ εὐθὺσ ἀπέκλεισαν ἅμα δ’ αἱ μὲν γυναῖκεσ ἔνδον αὐτοῦ τὸ χλαμύδιον ἀφαρπάσασαι περιέβαλον ἱμάτιον νυμφικόν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 10 4:1)

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

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