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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

  • αἱ δ’ ἱπποτροφίαι περιβόητοι μὲν ἐγένοντο καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁρμάτων· (Plutarch, , chapter 11 1:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τέτταρα μὲν ἔστι μέρη μάλιστα τοῦ πλήθουσ, γεωργικὸν βαναυσικὸν ἀγοραῖον θητικόν, τέτταρα δὲ τὰ χρήσιμα πρὸσ πόλεμον, ἱππικὸν ὁπλιτικὸν ψιλὸν ναυτικόν, ὅπου μὲν συμβέβηκε τὴν χώραν εἶναι ἱππάσιμον, ἐνταῦθα μὲν εὐφυῶσ ἔχει κατασκευάζειν τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν ἰσχυράν ἡ γὰρ σωτηρία τοῖσ οἰκοῦσι διὰ ταύτησ ἐστὶ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ, αἱ δ’ ἱπποτροφίαι τῶν μακρὰσ οὐσίασ κεκτημένων εἰσίν, ὅπου δ’ ὁπλῖτιν, τὴν ἐχομένην ὀλιγαρχίαν τὸ γὰρ ὁπλιτικὸν τῶν εὐπόρων ἐστὶ μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν ἀπόρων, ἡ δὲ ψιλὴ δύναμισ καὶ ναυτικὴ δημοκρατικὴ πάμπαν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 98:1)

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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