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ἐμπίς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπίς ἐμπίδος

Structure: ἐμπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mosquito, gnat

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

  • ἀνήρετ’ αὐτὸν Χαιρεφῶν ὁ Σφήττιοσ ὁπότερα τὴν γνώμην ἔχοι, τὰσ ἐμπίδασ κατὰ τὸ στόμ’ ᾄδειν ἢ κατὰ τοὐρροπύγιον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:23)
  • οἵ θ’ ἑλείασ παρ’ αὐλῶνασ ὀξυστόμουσ ἐμπίδασ κάπτεθ’, ὅσα τ’ εὐδρόσουσ γῆσ τόπουσ ἔχετε λειμῶνά τ’ ἐρόεντα Μαραθῶνοσ, ὄρνισ πτερυγοποίκιλόσ τ’ ἀτταγᾶσ ἀτταγᾶσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, monody7)

Synonyms

  1. a mosquito

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

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