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ἱππεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππεία

Structure: ἱππει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i(ppeu/w

Sense

  1. a riding or driving, horsemanship
  2. cavalry

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

  • ἐπεὶ μέντοι ἀνὰ τὰ πεδία οὐδὲ ἐν τῇ Φρυγίᾳ ἐδύνατο στρατεύεσθαι διὰ τὴν Φαρναβάζου ἱππείαν, ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ ἱππικὸν κατασκευαστέον εἶναι, ὡσ μὴ δραπετεύοντα πολεμεῖν δέοι αὐτόν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 25:1)
  • ἔπειτα δὲ οἶδα καὶ πεδία ὄντα καὶ ἱππείαν ἣν αὐτοὶ οἱ βάρβαροι νομίζουσι κρείττω εἶναι ἁπάσησ τῆσ βασιλέωσ ἱππείασ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 10:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἡ Φαυηνὴ τῆσ Ἀρμενίασ ἐπαρχία καὶ ἡ Κωμισηνὴ καὶ Ὀρχιστηνὴ πλείστην ἱππείαν παρέχουσα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 14 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. a riding or driving

  2. cavalry

Related

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

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