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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

  • καὶ τὸν μὲν στρατηλάτην αὐτὸν ἐφ’ ἁρ́ματοσ ὀχεῖσθαι παρδάλεων ὑπεζευγμένων, ἀγένειον ἀκριβῶσ, οὐδ’ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον τὴν παρειὰν χνοῶντα, κερασφόρον, βοτρύοισ ἐστεφανωμένον, μίτρᾳ τὴν κόμην ἀναδεδεμένον, ἐν πορφυρίδι καὶ χρυσῇ ἐμβάδι· (Lucian, (no name) 2:1)
  • ἐσθὴσ δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐστι χιτὼν λινοῦσ ποδήρησ καὶ ἐπενδύτησ ἐρεοῦσ, ἱμάτιον λευκόν, κόμη μακρά, ὑπόδημα ἐμβάδι ὅμοιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 40:14)

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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