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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐγώ σοι ζεῦγοσ πριάμενοσ ἐμβάδων τουτὶ φορεῖν δίδωμι. (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme23)
  • ἀλλὰ τούτοισ γ’ οὐκ ἔνι οὐδ’ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν αἰδὼσ τῶν παλαιῶν ἐμβάδων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, trochees 1:11)
  • νομίζειν δ’ ἐκ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ὄψεωσ πολλὰ μυθεύεσθαι καὶ μάλιστα οἱᾶ́ φασί τινεσ περὶ Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ, ὅτι καθάλοιτο εἰσ τὸν κρατῆρα καὶ καταλίποι τοῦ πάθουσ ἴχνοσ τῶν ἐμβάδων τὴν ἑτέραν ἃσ ἐφόρει χαλκᾶσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 16:9)

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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