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ποδανιπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδανιπτήρ ποδανιπτῆρος

Structure: ποδανιπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: ni/zw

Sense

  1. a vessel for washing the feet in, a footpan

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

  • ἦν οἱ ἄλλα τε ἀγαθὰ μυρία, ἐν δὲ καὶ ποδανιπτὴρ χρύσεοσ, ἐν τῷ αὐτόσ τε ὁ Ἄμασισ καὶ οἱ δαιτυμόνεσ οἱ πάντεσ τοὺσ πόδασ ἑκάστοτε ἐναπενίζοντο· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 172 4:1)
  • ἡ Μανία, φέρ’ ὀξύβαφα καὶ κανθάρουσ καὶ τὸν ποδανιπτῆρ’, ἐγχέασα θὔδατοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 6 1:2)

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

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