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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

  • τοῦτον οὖν ἐκβαίνοντα τότε τῆσ ὁλκάδοσ ἰδὼν ὁ Κλεομένησ ἔτυχε γὰρ ἐν τῇ κρηπῖδι τοῦ λιμένοσ περιπατῶν ἠσπάζετο προθύμωσ καὶ τίσ αὐτὸν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον ἄγοι πρόφασισ ἠρώτα. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 35 1:3)
  • καὶ ἐν τῷ τεμένεϊ ὀβελοὶ ἑστᾶσι μεγάλοι λίθινοι, λίμνη τε ἐστὶ ἐχομένη λιθίνῃ κρηπῖδι κεκοσμημένη καὶ ἐργασμένη εὖ κύκλῳ καὶ μέγαθοσ, ὡσ ἐμοὶ ἐδόκεε, ὅση περ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ ἡ τροχοειδὴσ καλεομένη. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 170 3:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ τὸ Αἰάκειον Φώκου τάφοσ χῶμά ἐστι περιεχόμενον κύκλῳ κρηπῖδι, ἐπίκειται δέ οἱ λίθοσ τραχύσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 14:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τῇ κρηπῖδι ἀγάλματα Διὸσ ἀνάκειται χαλκᾶ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 4:2)
  • τὸ δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ καὶ τρόπαιον κατὰ Ἀρκάδων ἐπὶ τῇ κρηπῖδι εἱστήκει. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 4:2)

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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