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ποδώκεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδώκεια

Structure: ποδωκει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from podw/khs

Sense

  1. swiftness of foot

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

  • πυρετὸν μὲν γὰρ οὐδεὶσ ὑγίειαν ὠνόμασεν οὐδὲ φθίσιν εὐεξίαν οὐδὲ ποδάγραν ποδώκειαν οὐδ’ ὠχρίασιν ἐρύθημα, θυμὸν δὲ πολλοὶ καλοῦσιν ἀνδρείαν καὶ ἔρωτα φιλίαν καὶ φθόνον ἅμιλλαν καὶ δειλίαν ἀσφάλειαν. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 33)
  • πυρετὸν μὲν γὰρ οὐδεὶσ ὑγίειαν ὠνόμασεν οὐδὲ φθίσιν εὐεξίαν οὐδὲ ποδάγραν ποδώκειαν οὐδ’ ὠχρίασιν ἐρύθημα, θυμὸν δὲ πολλοὶ καλοῦσιν ἀνδρείαν καὶ ἔρωτα φιλίαν καὶ φθόνον ἅμιλλαν καὶ δειλίαν ἀσφάλειαν. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 3 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. swiftness of foot

Related

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

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