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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

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

  • κνῆμαι δὲ καὶ πόδεσ ὑπερέχοιεν μὲν ἂν εἰκότωσ τῶν παραμηριδίων, ὁπλισθείη δ’ ἂν καὶ ταῦτα, εἰ ἐμβάδεσ γένοιντο σκύτουσ, ἐξ οὗπερ αἱ κρηπῖδεσ ποιοῦνται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. a felt-shoe

Related

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

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