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ἔμπαιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: empaios

Principal Part: ἔμπαιος ἔμπαιον

Structure: ἐμπαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Perh. from ἐν, πάομαι.

Sense

  1. possessed of or practised in

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἔμπαιος ἔμπαιον
Genitive ἐμπαίου ἐμπαίου
Dative ἐμπαίῳ ἐμπαίῳ
Accusative ἔμπαιον ἔμπαιον
Vocative ἔμπαιε ἔμπαιον
DualN/A/V ἐμπαίω ἐμπαίω
G/D ἐμπαίοιν ἐμπαίοιν
PluralNominative ἔμπαιοι ἔμπαια
Genitive ἐμπαίων ἐμπαίων
Dative ἐμπαίοις ἐμπαίοις
Accusative ἐμπαίους ἔμπαια
Vocative ἔμπαιοι ἔμπαια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἔμπαιος ἐμπαίου ἐμπαιώτερος ἐμπαιωτέρου ἐμπαιώτατος ἐμπαιωτάτου
Adverb ἐμπαίως ἐμπαιώτερον ἐμπαιώτατα

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

  • καὶ τόθ ἡγεμὼν ὁ πρέ- σβυς νεῶν Ἀχαιικῶν, μάντιν οὔτινα ψέγων, ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων, εὖτ ἀπλοίᾳ κεναγγεῖ βαρύ- νοντ Ἀχαιικὸς λεώς, Χαλκίδος πέραν ἔχων παλιρρόχ- θοις ἐν Αὐλίδος τόποις: (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 3 1:1)
  • ἤ ῥά νύ που τοιαῦτα καὶ αὐτῷ οἴκοθι κεῖται ἢ ὅ γ ἐφορμᾶται ποιησέμεν, ὡς ἐνὶ χερσὶ νωμᾷ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα κακῶν ἔμπαιος ἀλήτης. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 53:2)

Synonyms

  1. possessed of or practised in

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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