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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

  • τό τε γὰρ ἄρρεν φύσει τοῦ θήλεοσ ἡγεμονικώτερον, εἰ μή που συνέστηκε παρὰ φύσιν, καὶ τὸ πρεσβύτερον καὶ τέλειον τοῦ νεωτέρου καὶ ἀτελοῦσ ‐ ἐν μὲν οὖν ταῖσ πολιτικαῖσ ἀρχαῖσ ταῖσ πλείσταισ μεταβάλλει τὸ ἄρχον καὶ τὸ ἀρχόμενον ἐξ ἴσου γὰρ εἶναι βούλεται τὴν φύσιν καὶ διαφέρειν μηδέν, ὅμωσ δέ, ὅταν τὸ μὲν ἄρχῃ τὸ δ’ ἄρχηται, ζητεῖ διαφορὰν εἶναι καὶ σχήμασι καὶ λόγοισ καὶ τιμαῖσ, ὥσπερ καὶ Ἄμασισ εἶπε τὸν περὶ τοῦ ποδανιπτῆροσ λόγον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 165:1)
  • μαθὼν δὲ ὁ Ἄμασισ τὸ ἐκ τῶν ἀστῶν ποιεύμενον, συγκαλέσασ Αἰγυπτίουσ ἐξέφηνε φὰσ ἐκ τοῦ ποδανιπτῆροσ τὤγαλμα γεγονέναι, ἐσ τὸν πρότερον μὲν τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίουσ ἐνεμέειν τε καὶ ἐνουρέειν καὶ πόδασ ἐναπονίζεσθαι, τότε δὲ μεγάλωσ σέβεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 172 5:1)

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

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