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ῥιπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥιπή

Structure: ῥιπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: r(i/ptw

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

  • ἡ δ’ ἐσ πέλαγοσ πεφόρητο ἐντενέσ, ἠύτε τίσ τε δι’ ἠέροσ ὑψόθι κίρκοσ ταρσὸν ἐφεὶσ πνοιῇ φέρεται ταχύσ, οὐδὲ τινάσσει ῥιπήν, εὐκήλοισιν ἐνευδιόων πτερύγεσσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 15:28)
  • οἳ δ’ ἔχον Ἀρκαδίην ὑπὸ Κυλλήνησ ὄροσ αἰπὺ Αἰπύτιον παρὰ τύμβον ἵν’ ἀνέρεσ ἀγχιμαχηταί, οἳ Φενεόν τ’ ἐνέμοντο καὶ Ὀρχομενὸν πολύμηλον Ῥίπην τε Στρατίην τε καὶ ἠνεμόεσσαν Ἐνίσπην καὶ Τεγέην εἶχον καὶ Μαντινέην ἐρατεινὴν Στύμφηλόν τ’ εἶχον καὶ Παρρασίην ἐνέμοντο, τῶν ἦρχ’ Ἀγκαίοιο πάϊσ κρείων Ἀγαπήνωρ ἑξήκοντα νεῶν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 56:1)
  • τῶν δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγομένων Ῥίπην τε Στρατίην τε καὶ ἠνεμόεσσαν Ἐνίσπην εὑρεῖν τε χαλεπὸν καὶ εὑροῦσιν οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ διὰ τὴν ἐρημίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 8 2:5)

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

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