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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

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ γελοῖον ἐποίει, κρηπῖδασ γὰρ καλλίστασ ἐωνεῖτο νεοτμήτουσ ἀεί, καὶ τὴν πλείστην πραγματείαν περὶ ταύτασ εἶχεν, ὡσ καλλίστοισ ὑποδήμασι κεκοσμημένα εἰή αὐτῷ τὰ ξύλα. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 6:3)
  • δεήσει δέ τι αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εἶναι, οἱο͂ν ἱμάτια ἢ κρηπῖδασ ἢ ὀλίγασ τῶν τριχῶν ἤ τι τῶν τοιούτων. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:6)
  • ἔχω τὰσ κρηπῖδασ αὐτοῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:7)
  • τὴν θεὸν δ’ ὅπωσ λάθω δέδοικα καὶ τύραννον, ἡνίκ’ ἂν κενὰσ κρηπῖδασ εὑρ́ῃ λαί̈νασ ἀγάλματοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 4:6)
  • πρόσπολοι γυναῖκεσ, αἳ τῶνδ’ ἀμφὶ κρηπῖδασ δόμων θυοδόκων φρούρημ’ ἔχουσαι δεσπότιν φυλάσσετε, ἐκλέλοιπ’ ἤδη τὸν ἱερὸν τρίποδα καὶ χρηστήριον Ξοῦθοσ, ἢ μίμνει κατ’ οἶκον ἱστορῶν ἀπαιδίαν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees1)

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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