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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)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ πτηνὰ γεννᾷ καὶ νηκτὰ μυρία καὶ χερσαῖα, σαύρασ, καὶ ἀμφίβια, κροκοδείλουσ, καὶ δίποδα, τὸν ὄρνιν, καὶ ἄποδα, τὸν ὄφιν, καὶ πολύποδα, τὸν ἀττέλεβον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 14:3)
  • λέγω δὴ δεῖν τότε εὐθὺσ τὸ πεζὸν τῷ δίποδι πρὸσ τὸ τετράπουν γένοσ διανεῖμαι, κατιδόντα δὲ τἀνθρώπινον ἔτι μόνῳ τῷ πτηνῷ συνειληχὸσ τὴν δίποδα ἀγέλην πάλιν τῷ ψιλῷ καὶ τῷ πτεροφυεῖ τέμνειν, τμηθείσησ δὲ αὐτῆσ καὶ τότ’ ἤδη τῆσ ἀνθρωπονομικῆσ δηλωθείσησ τέχνησ, φέροντα τὸν πολιτικὸν καὶ βασιλικὸν οἱο͂ν ἡνίοχον εἰσ αὐτὴν ἐνστήσαντα, παραδοῦναι τὰσ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἡνίασ ὡσ οἰκείασ καὶ αὐτῷ ταύτησ οὔσησ τῆσ ἐπιστήμησ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 59:2)

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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