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πούς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 해부학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πούς ποδός

Structure: ποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. (anatomy) foot, (anatomy, by extension) leg

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πούς πόδε πόδες
Genitive ποδός ποδοῖν ποδῶν
Dative ποδί ποδοῖν ποσίν*
Accusative πόδα πόδε πόδας
Vocative πούς πόδε πόδες

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

  • ἐκεῖνα ζητεῖ καὶ ἄνω βλέπει τὰ πρὸ τοῖν ποδοῖν οὐχ ὁρῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:6)
  • καὶ δειπνοῦντι συνοῦσα ἅπτεται ἄλλοτε ἄλλῳ τοῖν ποδοῖν, ὑπομιμνήσκουσα ὅτι κἂν αὐτῇ ἄρα μεταδοτέον εἰή τῶν σιτίων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 4:4)
  • ἓν δέ τι καὶ μάλιστα μισεῖν ἐῴκει, πολὺ δ’ ἓν τῇ πόλει τοῦτο καὶ τοῖσ βαλανείοισ ἐπιχωριάζον προϊόντασ γάρ τινασ τῶν οἰκετῶν δεῖ βοᾶν καὶ παραγγέλλειν προορᾶσθαι τοῖν ποδοῖν, ἢν ὑψηλόν τι ἢ κοῖλον μέλλωσιν ὑπερβαίνειν, καὶ ὑπομιμνήσκειν αὐτούσ, τὸ καινότατον, ὅτι βαδίζουσιν. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 34:2)
  • βαῖνε καρπαλίμοιν ποδοῖν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, anapests4)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ μάλιστα τοῖν ποδοῖν ἐπικτυπῶν βάδιζε· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Parodos, strophe1)

Synonyms

  1. foot

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