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ῥιπίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥιπίς ῥιπίδος

Structure: ῥιπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(i/y

Sense

  1. a fan for raising the fire
  2. a lady's fan

Declension

Third 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

  • ἔστι ἐκ μυρίκησ πεποιημένη θύρη, κατερραμμένη ῥιπὶ καλάμων, καὶ λίθοσ τετρημένοσ διτάλαντοσ μάλιστά κῃ σταθμόν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 96 5:1)

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

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