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ἱστοδόκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱστοδόκη

Structure: ἱστοδοκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. the mast-crutch

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

  • ἐννύχιοι δ’ Ἄργοιο δαημοσύνῃσιν ἵκοντο Φᾶσίν τ’ εὐρὺ ῥέοντα, καὶ ἔσχατα πείρατα πόντοι Αὐτίκα δ’ ἱστία μὲν καὶ ἐπίκριον ἔνδοθι κοίλησ ἱστοδόκησ στείλαντεσ ἐκόσμεον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 21:15)

Synonyms

  1. the mast-crutch

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

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