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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

  • καὶ μὴν κἀκεῖνο πρόσεστιν αὐτῇ, τὸ μὴ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν, ἀλλὰ μετ’ ᾠδῆσ πέτεσθαι οὐκ ἀπηνοῦσ οἱά κωνώπων καὶ ἐμπίδων, οὐδὲ τὸ βαρύβρομον τῶν μελιττῶν ἢ τῶν σφηκῶν τὸ φοβερὸν καὶ ἀπειλητικὸν ἐνδεικνυμένησ, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτόν ἐστι λιγυρωτέρα, ὅσον σάλπιγγοσ καὶ κυμβάλων αὐλοὶ μελιχρότεροι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:2)
  • ὃσ γὰρ ἀρτίωσ, ὦ Μένιππε, τὴν γῆν ἐζήτεισ ὑπὸ τοῦ μεταξὺ διαστήματοσ ἐσ βραχὺ συνεσταλμένην, καὶ εἴ γε μὴ ὁ κολοσσὸσ ἐμήνυσέ σοι, τάχα ἂν ἄλλο τι ᾠήθησ ὁρᾶν, πῶσ νῦν καθάπερ Λυγκεύσ τισ ἄφνω γενόμενοσ ἅπαντα διαγινώσκεισ τὰ ἐπὶ γῆσ, τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, τὰ θηρία, μικροῦ δεῖν τὰσ τῶν ἐμπίδων νεοττιάσ; (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 12:6)
  • σάλπιγξ ὁ πρωκτόσ ἐστιν ἄρα τῶν ἐμπίδων. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:28)
  • καὶ ἅμα ὑπὸ πλήθουσ ἐμπίδων συνέβη πρόδηλον ὂν ὡσ ἀγρυπνῆσαι δεήσοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:1)

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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