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φέρασπις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέρασπις φέρασπιδος

Structure: φερασπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. shield-bearing

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φέρασπις φεράσπιδε φεράσπιδες
Genitive φεράσπιδος φερασπίδοιν φερασπίδων
Dative φεράσπιδι φερασπίδοιν φεράσπισιν*
Accusative φεράσπιδα φεράσπιδε φεράσπιδας
Vocative φέρασπι φεράσπιδε φεράσπιδες

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

  • ἔγχη σταδαῖα καὶ φεράσπιδεσ σαγαί. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 1:11)
  • ἐπεὶ πρεπόντωσ ἑλένασ, ἕλανδροσ, ἑλέ‐ πτολισ, ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσε ζεφύρου γίγαντοσ αὔρᾳ, πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδεσ κυναγοὶ κατ’ ἴχνοσ πλατᾶν ἄφαντον κελσάντων Σιμόεντοσ ἀ‐ κτὰσ ἐπ’ ἀεξιφύλλουσ δι’ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. shield-bearing

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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