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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

  • δμῶεσ ἐξενέγκατε τὴν ἐσχάραν μοι δεῦρο καὶ τὴν ῥιπίδα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode18)
  • ῥιπίδα δ’ Ἀντίκλεια· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 206 1:1)
  • ξανθὰ δ’ Ἀντίκλεια νόθον κεύθουσαν ἀήμα ῥιπίδα, τὰν μαλερὸν θάλποσ ἀμυνομέναν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2073)
  • ῥιπίδα τὴν μαλακοῖσιν ἀεὶ πρηεῖαν ἀήταισ Παρμενὶσ ἡδίστῃ θῆκε παρ’ Οὐρανίῃ, ἐξ εὐνῆσ δεκάτευμα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2901)

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

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