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φορβή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορβή

Structure: φορβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rbw

Sense

  1. pasture, food, fodder, forage

Declension

First 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

  • καρποὺσ δὲ ἀπὸ δενδρέων ἐξευρημένουσ σφι ἐσ φορβὴν κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίουσ, καὶ τούτουσ σιτέεσθαι τὴν χειμερινήν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 202 2:3)
  • τὰσ δὲ ἁμάξασ ἐν τῇσι σφι διαιτᾶτο τὰ τέκνα καὶ αἱ γυναῖκεσ πάσασ καὶ τὰ πρόβατα πάντα, πλὴν ὅσα σφι ἐσ φορβὴν ἱκανὰ ἦν τοσαῦτα ὑπολιπόμενοι, τὰ ἄλλα ἅμα τῇσι ἁμάξῃσι προέπεμψαν, ἐντειλάμενοι αἰεὶ τὸ πρὸσ βορέω ἐλαύνειν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 121 1:2)
  • τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ αὐτοὶ πολλὴν φορβὴν φερόμενοι πορευόμεθα, τοῦτο δέ, τῶν ἄν κου ἐπιβέωμεν γῆν καὶ ἔθνοσ, τούτων τὸν σῖτον ἕξομεν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 50 5:2)
  • ταῦτα μὲν αὐτῷ τε βασιλέι καὶ τοῖσι ὁμοσίτοισι μετ’ ἐκείνου ἐπεποίητο, τῇ δὲ ἄλλῃ στρατιῇ τὰ ἐσ φορβὴν μοῦνα τασσόμενα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 119 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. pasture

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

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