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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

  • ἐά τοῦτον οὐκ εἰσ μακρὰν γέλωτα ἡμῖν παρέξοντα ὁπόταν πλέῃ, μηδ’ ἐμπίδα οὐχ ὅπωσ ταῦρον ἔτι ἄρασθαι δυνάμενοσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 8:11)
  • ὁρᾷσ ἐπαγρυπνοῦντα καὶ τοῦτον ἐπὶ φροντίδων, ἀναλογιζόμενον τοὺσ τόκουσ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ κατεσκληκότα, ὃν δεήσει μετ’ ὀλίγον πάντα ταῦτα καταλιπόντα σίλφην ἢ ἐμπίδα ἢ κυνόμυιαν γενέσθαι; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 31:1)

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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