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ἱππομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππομαχία

Structure: ἱππομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from i(ppoma/xos

Sense

  1. a horse-fight, an action of 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

  • ἀκριβῶσ δὲ τῆσ Μουτίνησ φυλασσομένησ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀντωνίου, πανσυδὶ μὲν οὐ συνεπλέκοντο αὐτῷ Πάνσαν περιμένοντεσ, ἱππομαχίαι δ’ ἦσαν πυκναί, πολὺ μὲν πλείουσ ἱππέασ ἔχοντοσ Ἀντωνίου· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 9 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. a horse-fight

Related

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

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