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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

  • τὰ δὲ ὡσ ἐκ τοῦ μέρουσ τὸ εἶδοσ, οἱο͂ν ἅνθρωποσ ἐκ τοῦ δίποδοσ καὶ ἡ συλλαβὴ ἐκ τοῦ στοιχείου· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 229:1)
  • περίεργον γὰρ τὸ ὑπόπουν εἰρημένου τοῦ δίποδοσ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 204:1)
  • ἔπειτα εἰ μὲν μεθέξει τοῦ δίποδοσ καὶ τοῦ πολύποδοσ, ἀδύνατόν τι συμβαίνει, τἀναντία γὰρ ἅμα ὑπάρξει αὐτῷ ἑνὶ καὶ τῷδέ τινι ὄντι· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 227:1)
  • ἑνὸσ ἀλλὰ δυοῖν, ζῴου καὶ δίποδοσ, καὶ ὅλωσ δὴ οὐκ ἂν εἰή ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ἓν ἀλλὰ πλείω, ζῷον καὶ δίπουν; (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 8 73:1)
  • δεῖ ἄρα τὴν τοῦ ὀκτώποδοσ χωρίου γραμμὴν μείζω μὲν εἶναι τῆσδε τῆσ δίποδοσ, ἐλάττω δὲ τῆσ τετράποδοσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 83:8)

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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