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ἐμβάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβάς ἐμβάδος

Structure: ἐμβαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mbai/nw

Sense

  1. a felt-shoe

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐμβάς ἐμβάδε ἐμβάδες
Genitive ἐμβάδος ἐμβάδοιν ἐμβάδων
Dative ἐμβάδι ἐμβάδοιν ἐμβάσιν*
Accusative ἐμβάδα ἐμβάδε ἐμβάδας
Vocative ἐμβά ἐμβάδε ἐμβάδες

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

  • οὐδεὶσ γοῦν πρὸ σοῦ ἂν εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ θέατρον οὐδ’ ἂν ἐμήνυσεν ὅ τι τοὔνομα τῷ δράματι, ἀλλὰ σὺ κοσμίωσ πάνυ, χρυσᾶσ ἐμβάδασ ἔχων καὶ ἐσθῆτα τυραννικήν, προεισεπέμπου εὐμένειαν αἰτήσων παρὰ τοῦ θεάτρου, στεφάνουσ κομίζων καὶ κρότῳ ἀπιών, ἤδη τιμώμενοσ πρὸσ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 16:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ κατάκειμαι πάλαι χεζητιῶν, τὰσ ἐμβάδασ ζητῶν λαβεῖν ἐν τῷ σκότῳ καὶ θοἰμάτιον· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode4)
  • κοὐ τοῦτο λυπεῖ μ’, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ ἐμβάδασ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode27)
  • οὐ δεινὸν οὖν δῆτ’ ἐμβάδασ τοσουτονὶ δύνασθαι, ἐμοῦ δὲ μὴ μνείαν ἔχειν ὅσων πέπονθασ; (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme25)
  • τὰσ δ’ ἐμβάδασ ποῖ τέτροφασ ὦνόητε σύ; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a felt-shoe

Related

Similar forms

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

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