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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)
  • ἀλλ’ αὐανοῦμαι τῷδ’ ἐν αὐλίῳ μόνοσ, οὐ πτηνὸν ὄρνιν οὐδὲ θῆρ’ ὀρειβάτην τόξοισ ἐναίρων τοισίδ’, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ τάλασ θανὼν παρέξω δαῖθ’ ὑφ’ ὧν ἐφερβόμην, καί μ’ οὓσ ἐθήρων πρόσθε θηράσουσι νῦν· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:21)

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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