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ποδοστράβη?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: podostrabē

Principal Part: ποδοστράβη

Structure: ποδοστραβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποδοστράβη ποδοστράβα ποδοστράβαι
Genitive ποδοστράβης ποδοστράβαιν ποδοστραβῶν
Dative ποδοστράβῃ ποδοστράβαιν ποδοστράβαις
Accusative ποδοστράβην ποδοστράβα ποδοστράβας
Vocative ποδοστράβη ποδοστράβα ποδοστράβαι

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

  • "ὁ γὰρ στρατηγὸς καίτοι ἀτιμαγελοῦντι καρπόδεσμά τε αὐτῷ περιθεὶς καὶ περιδέραιον ἐν ποδοκάκαις καὶ ποδοστράβαις ἐποίησεν εἶναι. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 10:5)
  • 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)
  • ἱστάναι δὲ τὰς ποδοστράβας διελόντα τῆς γῆς βάθος πεντεπάλαστον, περιφερὲς δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ ἄνωθεν ἴσον ταῖς στεφάναις τῶν ποδοστραβῶν, εἰς δὲ τὸ κάτω ἀμειβόμενον στενότητι: (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 16:1)
  • ποιήσαντα δὲ ταῦτα ἐπὶ μὲν τὸ βάθος τὴν ποδοστράβην ἐπιθεῖναι κατωτέρω ἰσόπεδον, περὶ δὲ τὴν στέγην τὸν βρόχον τῆς σειρίδος: (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 17:1)
  • τὴν δὲ περιοῦσαν τῆς γῆς ἀποφέρειν πόρρω ἀπὸ τῆς ποδοστράβης: (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

Similar forms

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

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