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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

  • τὴν δὲ περιοῦσαν τῆσ γῆσ ἀποφέρειν πόρρω ἀπὸ τῆσ ποδοστράβησ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 18:2)
  • ἁλίσκονται δὲ καὶ ἄνευ ποδοστράβησ διωκόμεναι, ὅταν ᾖ ἡ ὡρ́α θερινή· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 22:5)

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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