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ὀρειβάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρειβάτης ὀρειβάτου

Structure: ὀρειβατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. mountain-ranging

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

  • οὗ δὴ στενὸν δίαυλον ᾤκισται πέτρασ δεινὴ Χάρυβδισ, ὠμοβρώσ τ’ ὀρειβάτησ Κύκλωψ, Λιγυστίσ θ’ ἡ συῶν μορφώτρια Κίρκη, θαλάσσησ θ’ ἁλμυρᾶσ ναυάγια, λωτοῦ τ’ ἔρωτεσ, Ἡλίου θ’ ἁγναὶ βόεσ, αἳ σάρκα φωνήεσσαν ἥσουσίν ποτε, πικρὰν Ὀδυσσεῖ γῆρυν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 3:18)
  • τίσ ποτ’ ἔσθ’ ὁ μουσόμαντισ ἄτοποσ ὄρνισ ὀρειβάτησ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric16)

Synonyms

  1. mountain-ranging

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

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