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ὀρεσσιβάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεσσιβάτης ὀρεσσιβάτου

Structure: ὀρεσσιβατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for o)resiba/ths

Sense

  1. mountain roaming

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρεσσιβάτης ὀρεσσιβάτᾱ ὀρεσσιβάται
Genitive ὀρεσσιβάτου ὀρεσσιβάταιν ὀρεσσιβατῶν
Dative ὀρεσσιβάτῃ ὀρεσσιβάταιν ὀρεσσιβάταις
Accusative ὀρεσσιβάτην ὀρεσσιβάτᾱ ὀρεσσιβάτᾱς
Vocative ὀρεσσιβάτα ὀρεσσιβάτᾱ ὀρεσσιβάται

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

  • κρατεῖ δὲ μηχαναῖσ ἀγραύλου θηρὸσ ὀρεσσιβάτα, λασιαύχενά θ’ ἵππον ὀχμάζεται ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν οὔρειόν τ’ ἀκμῆτα ταῦρον. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • τίσ σε, τέκνον, τίσ σ’ ἔτικτε τᾶν μακραιώνων ἄρα Πανὸσ ὀρεσσιβάτα πατρὸσ πελασθεῖσ’; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • γλαφυρῆσ γὰρ ἀπὸ χθονὸσ ἔκτανε δεινὸσ σκορπίοσ, οὐτήσασ ταρσὸν ὀρεσσιβάτην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5782)

Synonyms

  1. mountain roaming

Similar forms

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

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