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ἱπποτροφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱπποτροφία

Structure: ἱπποτροφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from i(ppotro/fos

Sense

  1. a breeding or keeping of horses

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

  • τὸ δὲ τῶν Αἰολέων ἦθοσ ἔχει τὸ γαῦρον καὶ ὀγκῶδεσ, ἔτι δὲ ὑπόχαυνον ὁμολογεῖ δὲ ταῦτα ταῖσ ἱπποτροφίαισ αὐτῶν καὶ ξενοδοχίαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 19 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a breeding or keeping of horses

Related

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

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