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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

  • οἳ μὲν δίποδεσ καλέονται, οἳ δὲ ζεγέριεσ τὸ δὲ οὔνομα τοῦτο ἐστὶ μὲν Λιβυστικόν, δύναται δὲ κατ’ Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν βουνοί, οἳ δὲ ἐχινέεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 192 3:2)

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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