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ἱπποφόρβιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱπποφόρβιον ἱπποφόρβιου

Structure: ἱπποφορβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from i(ppoforbo/s

Sense

  1. a lot of horses out at grass, a troop of horses
  2. a stable

Declension

Second 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

  • Ἀγαθαρχίδην δὲ τὸν ἐκείνου πολίτην παρά τινοσ Βόξου, [Πέρσου] τὸ γένοσ, ἱστορῆσαι διότι Πέρσησ τισ Ἐρύθρασ, ἱπποφορβίου τινὸσ ὑπὸ λεαίνησ οἴστρῳ κατασχομένησ ἐξελαθέντοσ μέχρι θαλάττησ κἀκεῖθεν εἰσ νῆσόν τινα διάραντοσ, σχεδίαν πηξάμενοσ πρῶτοσ περαιωθείη πρὸσ τὴν νῆσον· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 39:4)

Synonyms

  1. a lot of horses out at grass

  2. a stable

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

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