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κρηπίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρηπίς κρηπῖδος

Structure: κρηπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a half-boot, soldiers' boots, soldiers
  2. a groundwork, foundation, basement, bottom, the foundation
  3. the walled edge, a quay

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ γὰρ αἱ Δαμωνίδα τοῦ χωλοῦ κρηπῖδεσ, ἃσ ἀπολέσασ εὔχετο τοῖσ τοῦ κλέψαντοσ ἐναρμόσαι ποσί, φαῦλαι μὲν ἦσαν ἐκείνῳ δ’ ἡρ̀μοττον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 11:2)
  • παντᾷ κρηπῖδεσ, παντᾷ χλαμυδηφόροι ἄνδρεσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)
  • Ὑποδημάτιον δὲ ποιέεσθαι μολύβδινον, ἔξωθεν τῆσ ἐπιδέσιοσ ἐπιδεδεμένον, οἱο͂ν αἱ χῖαι κρηπῖδεσ Ῥυθμὸν εἶχον‧ ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ δεῖ, ἤν τισ ὀρθῶσ μὲν τῇσι χερσὶ διορθώσῃ, ὀρθῶσ δὲ τοῖσιν ὀθονίοισιν ἐπιδέῃ, ὀρθῶσ δὲ καὶ τὰσ ἀναλήψιασ ποιοῖτο. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 62.8)
  • κνῆμαι δὲ καὶ πόδεσ ὑπερέχοιεν μὲν ἂν εἰκότωσ τῶν παραμηριδίων, ὁπλισθείη δ’ ἂν καὶ ταῦτα, εἰ ἐμβάδεσ γένοιντο σκύτουσ, ἐξ οὗπερ αἱ κρηπῖδεσ ποιοῦνται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 12:1)
  • νεωρίων τε ἔγεμον αἱ κρηπῖδεσ αἵδε ἐσ ναῦσ διακοσίασ καὶ εἴκοσι πεποιημένων, καὶ ταμιείων ἐπὶ τοῖσ νεωρίοισ ἐσ τριηρετικὰ σκεύη. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a half-boot

Related

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

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