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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

  • Λακεδαιμόνιοι μέν, ἄριστοι Ἑλλήνων εἶναι δοκοῦντεσ, παρὰ Πολυδεύκουσ καὶ Κάστοροσ καρυατίζειν μαθόντεσ ὀρχήσεωσ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο εἶδοσ, ἐν Καρύαισ τῆσ Λακωνικῆσ διδασκόμενον ^ ἅπαντα μετὰ Μουσῶν ποιοῦσιν, ἄχρι τοῦ πολεμεῖν πρὸσ αὐλὸν καὶ ῥυθμὸν καὶ εὔτακτον ἔμβασιν τοῦ ποδόσ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 10:1)
  • εἶδεσ δ’ ἂν ἢ πλεύρ’ ἢ δίχηλον ἔμβασιν ῥιπτόμεν’ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω· (Euripides, episode, trochees 8:3)
  • τὴν Σμικυθίωνοσ δ’ οὐχ ὁρᾷσ Μελιστίχην σπεύδουσαν ἐν ταῖσ ἐμβάσιν; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:4)
  • πρὶν γὰρ εἶναι Περγασῆσιν ἔνεον ἐν ταῖσ ἐμβάσιν. (Aristotle, Agon, trochees4)
  • σκύτη τοσαῦτα πωλῶν ἔδωκασ ἤδη τουτῳὶ κάττυμα παρὰ σεαυτοῦ ταῖσ ἐμβάσιν φάσκων φιλεῖν; (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme20)

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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