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ποδίστρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδίστρα

Structure: ποδιστρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from podisth/r

Sense

  1. a foottrap

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

  • Ὑλησκόπῳ με Πανὶ θηρευτὴσ Γέλων ἔθηκε λόγχην, ἧσ ἀπέθρισε χρόνοσ ἀκμὴν ἐν ἔργῳ, καὶ λίνων πολυστρόφων γεραιὰ τρύχη, καὶ πάγασ δεραγχέασ, νευροπλεκεῖσ τε κνωδάλων ἐπισφύρουσ ὠκεῖσ ποδίστρασ, καὶ τραχηλοδεσπότασ κλοιοὺσ κυνούχουσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1071)

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

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