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ἔμβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμβασις ἔμβασεως

Structure: ἐμβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mbai/nw

Sense

  1. that on which one goes or steps, a shoe
  2. the foot, hoof
  3. a bath

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

  • αἱ γὰρ ἐμβάσεισ περικεχυμένου πανταχόθεν τοῖσ πόροισ τοῦ ὕδατοσ φράττουσι τὴν τῶν ἱδρώτων ἔκκρισιν καθάπερ ἂν εἴ τισ ἠθμὸσ εἰσ ὕδωρ βληθείσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 44 3:1)
  • διέξεισι γὰρ οὐθέν, εἰ μή τισ αὐτὸν μετεωρίσασ τοῖσ πόροισ ἀναψυχὴν καὶ διέξοδον εἰσ τὸ ἔξω παράσχῃ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ εἴρηκεν ἐν τοῖσ φυσικοῖσ προβλήμασι ζητῶν διὰ τί οἱ ἱδροῦντεσ ἐπὰν ἔλθωσιν εἰσ θερμὸν ἢ ψυχρὸν ὕδωρ οὐκ ἔτι ἱδροῦσιν, ἑώσ ἂν πάλιν ἐπανέλθωσιν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμβάσεων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 44 3:2)
  • ἐχθὲσ λουόμενοσ Διοκλῆσ ἀνενήνοχε σαύραν ἐκ τῆσ ἐμβάσεωσ τὴν Ἀναδυομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 2071)

Synonyms

  1. the foot

  2. a bath

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

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