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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

  • οἱο͂ν ἐξ ἀνθράκων πρινίνων φέψαλοσ ἀνήλατ’ ἐρεθιζόμενοσ οὐρίᾳ ῥιπίδι, ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἐπανθρακίδεσ ὦσι παρακείμεναι, οἱ δὲ Θασίαν ἀνακυκῶσι λιπαράμπυκα, οἱ δὲ μάττωσιν, οὕτω σοβαρὸν ἐλθὲ μέλοσ ἔντονον ἀγροικότερον ὡσ ἐμὲ λαβοῦσα τὸν δημότην. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, strophe2)
  • δμῶεσ ἐξενέγκατε τὴν ἐσχάραν μοι δεῦρο καὶ τὴν ῥιπίδα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode18)
  • "ῥιπὶσ δ’ ἐγείρει φύλακασ Ἡφαίστου κύνασ θερμῇ παροξύνουσα τηγάνου πνοῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1411)
  • ῥιπὶσ δ’ ἐγείρει φύλακασ ̔ Ἡφαίστου κύνασ θερμῇ παροξύνουσα τηγάνου πνοῇ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 71 1:3)
  • ῥιπίδα δ’ Ἀντίκλεια· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 206 1:1)

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

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