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ἱππεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππεύς ἱππέως

Structure: ἱππευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: i(/ppos

Sense

  1. a horseman, the charioteer, the hero who fights from a chariot
  2. a horseman, rider
  3. Horsemen or Knights
  4. the King's Body Guard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱππεύς ἱππή ἱππής
Genitive ἱππέως ἱππέοιν ἱππέων
Dative ἱππεί ἱππέοιν ἱππεῦσιν*
Accusative ἱππέα ἱππή ἱππέᾱς
Vocative ἱππεύ ἱππή ἱππής

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

  • "ἢν μὲν γὰρ ἅμα ἡμῖν ἰῄσ ἐπὶ Βόσπορον, ἱππεῖ ἑνὶ πλείουσ ἂν γενοίμεθα· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 51:3)
  • "Ἄλεξισ γοῦν ἐν Ἱππεῖ φησίν τοῦτ’ ἔστιν Ἀκαδήμεια, τοῦτο Ξενοκράτησ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9118)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Ἱππεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 42 2:4)
  • Ἄλεξισ Ἱππεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 63 2:7)
  • ἐφ’ ὑψηλοῦ γὰρ ὄντι τῷ ἱππεῖ κοπίδοσ μᾶλλον ἡ πληγὴ ἢ ξίφουσ ἀρκέσει. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. a horseman

  2. the King's Body Guard

Related

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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