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πομπεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πομπεία

Structure: πομπει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pompeu/w

Sense

  1. a leading in procession
  2. jeering, ribaldry, who took part in the processions

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

  • "ἀρχὴν δ’ ἐποιήσατο τῆσ πανηγύρεωσ τὴν πομπείαν οὕτωσ ἐπιτελεσθεῖσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:37)
  • ἀρχὴν δ’ ἐποιήσατο τῆσ πανηγύρεωσ τὴν πομπείαν οὕτωσ ἐπιτελεσθεῖσαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, iii. res asiae 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a leading in procession

Related

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

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