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ποδοστράβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδοστράβη

Structure: ποδοστραβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

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

  • ἵστανται δὲ καὶ ποδοστράβαι ταῖσ ἐλάφοισ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσι, περὶ τοὺσ λειμῶνασ καὶ τὰ ῥεῖθρα καὶ τὰσ νάπασ, ἐν ταῖσ διόδοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἔργοισ πρὸσ ὅ τι ἂν προσίῃ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 13:1)
  • αἱ δὲ ποδοστράβαι ὅμοιαι ταῖσ τῶν ἐλάφων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 4:3)
  • ἵστανται δὲ αἱ ποδοστράβαι αὐτοῖσ ὥσπερ ταῖσ ἐλάφοισ ἐν τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ τόποισ, καὶ ἐπισκέψεισ αἱ αὐταὶ καὶ μεταδρομαὶ καὶ αἱ πρόσοδοι καὶ αἱ χρεῖαι τοῦ προβολίου. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 26:1)

Synonyms

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

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

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