Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δίπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίπους

Structure: διποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. two-footed
  2. the jerboa, from its two hind feet
  3. two feet long

Declension

Third 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

  • πάντα τε τὰ ζῷα δύο ἡγεμόνασ ἔχειν πόδασ, καρκίνον δέ τέσσαρασ, ὅσα δ’ ἔναιμά ἐστι, φησί, τῶν ζῴων ἢ ἄποδά ἐστιν ἢ δίποδα ἢ τετράποδα, ὅσα δὲ τῶν τεσσάρων πλείονασ ἔχει πόδασ ἄναιμά ἐστι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 49 1:1)
  • καὶ τὸ τῆσ Σφιγγὸσ δὲ αἴνιγμα Ἀσκληπιάδησ ἐν τοῖσ Τραγῳδουμένοισ τοιοῦτον εἶναί φησιν ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆσ καὶ τετράπον, οὗ μία φωνή, καὶ τρίπον, ἀλλάσσει δὲ φύσιν μόνον ὅσσ1’ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἑρπετὰ γίνονται καὶ ἀν’ αἰθέρα καὶ κατὰ πόντον ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν πλείστοισιν ἐρειδόμενον ποσὶ βαίνῃ, ἔνθα τάχοσ γυίοισιν ἀφαυρότατον πέλει αὑτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 83 4:2)
  • "παιδίσκη δίπουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 6:2)
  • μαιμᾷ πέλασ δίπουσ ὄφισ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • τί ἐστιν ὃ μίαν ἔχον φωνὴν τετράπουν καὶ δίπουν καὶ τρίπουν γίνεται· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 8:6)
  • αὕτη δίπουσ λέαινα συγκοιμωμένη λύκῳ, λέοντοσ εὐγενοῦσ ἀπουσίᾳ, κτενεῖ με τὴν τάλαιναν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:17)
  • ἡ φύσισ, ἣν τὸ γένοσ ἡμῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων κέκτηται, μῶν ἄλλωσ πωσ εἰσ τὴν πορείαν πέφυκεν ἢ καθάπερ ἡ διάμετροσ ἡ δυνάμει δίπουσ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 56:1)

Synonyms

  1. two-footed

  2. two feet long

Related

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

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