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διόπτρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διόπτρα

Structure: διοπτρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o)/yomai, fut. of o(ra/w

Sense

  1. an instrument for measuring heights, a Jacob's staff

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

  • Ὅταν δὲ ταῦτα συνθέμενοι χωρισθῶσιν, ἑκάτερον ἐπὶ τοῦ τόπου δεήσει πρῶτον μὲν διόπτραν ἔχειν δύ’ αὐλίσκουσ ἔχουσαν, ὥστε τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἀντιπυρσεύειν τῷ μὲν τὸν δεξιὸν τόπον, τῷ δὲ τὸν εὐώνυμον δύνασθαι θεωρεῖν. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 46 1:1)

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

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