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ὀρειβασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρειβασία

Structure: ὀρειβασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mountaineer's life

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

  • καὶ νῦν δ’ ἔτι ἑορτή τισ ἄγεται παρὰ τοῖσ Προυσιεῦσιν καὶ ὀρειβασία θιασευόντων καὶ καλούντων Ὕλαν, ὡσ ἂν κατὰ ζήτησιν τὴν ἐκείνου πεποιημένων τὴν ἐπὶ τὰσ ὕλασ ἔξοδον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 4 3:8)
  • τῇ μὲν οὖν ὀρειβασίᾳ τὸ μεταλλευτικὸν καὶ τὸ θηρευτικὸν καὶ ζητητικὸν τῶν πρὸσ τὸν βίον χρησίμων ἐφάνη συγγενέσ, τῶν δ’ ἐνθουσιασμῶν καὶ θρησκείασ καὶ μαντικῆσ τὸ ἀγυρτικὸν καὶ γοητεία ἐγγύσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 34:5)

Synonyms

  1. a mountaineer's life

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

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