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δίπους?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: dipous

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

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

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