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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

  • Τρύφων δὲ ἐμβὰσ εἰσ πλοῖον ἔφυγεν εἰσ Ὀρθωσιάδα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 15:37)
  • εἶτ’ ἔθει δρόμῳ ἐπὶ τὸν ἐσόμενον νεών καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρυγμα ἐλθὼν καὶ τὴν προῳκονομημένην ^ τοῦ χρηστηρίου πηγήν, ἐμβὰσ εἰσ τὸ ὕδωρ ὕμνουσ τε ᾖδεν Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ καὶ ἐκάλει τὸν θεὸν ἥκειν τύχῃ τῇ ἀγαθῇ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 14:1)
  • ", ὡσ διαφαίνεσθαι τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἢ κρηπὶσ Ἀττικὴ γυναικεία, τὸ πολυσχιδέσ, ἢ ἐμβὰσ Σικυωνία πίλοισ τοῖσ λευκοῖσ ἐπιπρέπουσα, καὶ ἀκόλουθοι πολλοὶ καὶ βιβλίον ἀεί, ταῦτα μὲν αὐτὸν χρὴ συντελεῖν τὰ δ’ ἄλλα καθ’ ὁδὸν ἤδη προϊὼν ὁρ́α καὶ ἄκουε. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:19)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστα πρίν τιν’ ἀνθρώπων ἰδεῖν, ῥιπτεῖτε χλαίνασ, ἐμβὰσ ἐκποδὼν ἴτω, χάλα συναπτοὺσ ἡνίασ Λακωνικάσ, βακτηρίασ ἄφεσθε. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Choral2)
  • ἐμβὰσ δὲ κεῖται καὶ τρίβων ἐρριμμένοσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:5)

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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