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ἐμβάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβάτης ἐμβάτου

Structure: ἐμβατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)mbai/nw

Sense

  1. a half-boot of felt

Declension

First 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

  • μᾶλλον δὲ τραγικὸν ὑποκριτὴν ἐννόησον θατέρῳ μὲν τοῖν ποδοῖν ἐφ̓ ὑψηλοῦ βεβηκότα, οἱοῖ́ εἰσι τραγικοὶ ἐμβάται, ὁ δ̓ ἕτεροσ ἀνυπόδητοσ ἔστω. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 1:6)
  • χιτὼν φαιὸσ ποδήρησ, περὶ αὐτῷ ζώνη φοινικῆ, πῖλοσ Ἀρκαδικὸσ ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ἔχων ἐνυφασμένα τὰ δώδεκα στοιχεῖα, ἐμβάται τραγικοί, πώγων ὑπερμεγέθησ, ῥάβδοσ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ μειλίνη. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. q'. MENEDHMOS 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a half-boot of felt

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

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