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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐμβάτης ἐμβάτᾱ ἐμβάται
Genitive ἐμβάτου ἐμβάταιν ἐμβατῶν
Dative ἐμβάτῃ ἐμβάταιν ἐμβάταις
Accusative ἐμβάτην ἐμβάτᾱ ἐμβάτᾱς
Vocative ἐμβάτα ἐμβάτᾱ ἐμβάται

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

  • ἤδη δὲ πέρασ ἔχοντοσ τοῦ δράματοσ ἀποδυσάμενοσ ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν τὴν χρυσόπαστον ἐκείνην ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὸ προσωπεῖον ἀποθέμενοσ καὶ καταβὰσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμβατῶν πένησ καὶ ταπεινὸσ περίεισιν, οὐκέτ’ Ἀγαμέμνων ὁ Ἀτρέωσ οὐδὲ Κρέων ὁ Μενοικέωσ, ἀλλὰ Πῶλοσ Χαρικλέουσ Σουνιεὺσ ὀνομαζόμενοσ ἢ Σάτυροσ Θεογείτονοσ Μαραθώνιοσ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 16:9)
  • χρυσόπαστον, ἢν δέ, οἱᾶ πολλὰ γίνεται, κενεμβατήσασ τισ αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῃ τῇ σκηνῇ καταπέσῃ, γέλωτα δηλαδὴ παρέχει τοῖσ θεαταῖσ τοῦ προσωπείου μὲν συντριβέντοσ αὐτῷ διαδήματι, ᾑμαγμένησ δὲ τῆσ ἀληθοῦσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ ὑποκριτοῦ καὶ τῶν σκελῶν ἐπὶ πολὺ γυμνουμένων, ὡσ τῆσ τε ἐσθῆτοσ τὰ ἔνδοθεν φαίνεσθαι ῥάκια δύστηνα ὄντα καὶ τῶν ἐμβατῶν τὴν ὑπόδεσιν ἀμορφοτάτην καὶ οὐχὶ κατὰ λόγον τοῦ ποδόσ. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 26:5)

Synonyms

  1. a half-boot of felt

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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