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ῥιπή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: rhipē

Principal Part: ῥιπή

Structure: ῥιπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ῥίπτω

Sense

  1. the swing or force with which anything is thrown, the flight, the sweep or rush, the quarter of, storms, the North, the rush
  2. a flapping, the buzz, quivering light, rapid movement, the twinkling

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

  • αἰθὴρ δ ἐλαφραῖς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς ὑποσυρίζει. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests3)
  • ἀντιτύπᾳ δ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε τανταλωθεὶς πυρφόρος, ὃς τότε μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ βακχεύων ἐπέπνει ῥιπαῖς ἐχθίστων ἀνέμων. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)
  • ὅσσα τε χθὼν ἠρινὰ φύλλ ἀναπέμπει, χὠπόσαι ἐν θαλάσσᾳ καὶ ποταμοῖς ψάμαθοι κύμασιν ῥιπαῖς τ ἀνέμων κλονέονται, χὤ τι μέλλει, χὠπόθεν ἔσσεται, εὖ καθορᾷς. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 14:2)
  • ἢν πταίσῃς, οὐδεὶς ἔτι σοι φίλος, ἀλλ ἅμα πάντα ἐχθρά, Τύχης ῥιπαῖς συμμεταβαλλόμενα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 352)

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

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