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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

  • ὁρῶν δὲ τοὺσ ἵππουσ, διὰ τὴν ἐν τῇ στενοχωρίᾳ τραχύτητα μὴ δυναμένουσ γυμνάζεσθαι, πρὸσ τὴν ἐν ταῖσ ἱππομαχίαισ χρείαν ἀχρήστουσ ἐσομένουσ ἐπενοήσατό τινα ξένην καὶ παρηλλαγμένην τῶν ἵππων γυμνασίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 42 3:1)

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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