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φορβάς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορβάς φορβάδος

Structure: φορβαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rbw

Sense

  1. giving pasture or food, feeding
  2. in the pasture, out at grass, grazing with the herd

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

  • ἡδομέ‐ να δ’ ἄρα, πῶλοσ ὅπωσ ἅμα ματέρι φορβάδι, κῶλον ἄγει ταχύπουν σκιρτήμασι βάκχα. (Euripides, choral, epode6)
  • αὐτὰρ ὅγ’ ἄμφω χεῖρε πέδῳ καὶ στέρνον ἐρείσασ ῥωγάδοσ ἐκ πέτρησ πίεν ἄσπετον, ὄφρα βαθεῖαν νηδύν, φορβάδι ἶσοσ ἐπιπροπεσών, ἐκορέσθη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 23:21)

Synonyms

  1. in the pasture

Related

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

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