Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ῥῖψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥῖψις ῥῖψεως

Structure: ῥιψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a throwing, casting, hurling
  2. a casting about
  3. a being thrown or hurled

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

  • σάνδαλα δ’ αὐτίκα ῥιψὶν ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισ ἁλίῃσιν, ἄφραστ’ ἠδ’ ἀνόητα διέπλεκε, θαυματὰ ἔργα, συμμίσγων μυρίκασ καὶ μυρσινοειδέασ ὄζουσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 8:7)
  • ἐντεῦθεν δ’ ἐκπλέοντι τὸν κόλπον νῆσοσ Λευκωσία, μικρὸν ἔχουσα πρὸσ τὴν ἤπειρον διάπλουν, ἐπώνυμοσ μιᾶσ τῶν Σειρήνων, ἐκπεσούσησ δεῦρο μετὰ τὴν μυθευομένην ῥῖψιν αὐτῶν εἰσ τὸν βυθόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 2:4)
  • ἡ δ’ ἄμπελοσ ἐν ἕλεσι φύεται, καλαμίναισ ῥιψὶν ἐπιβαλλομένησ γῆσ, ὅση δέξαιτ’ ἂν τὸ φυτόν, ὥστε φορητὴν γίνεσθαι πολλάκισ, εἶτα κοντοῖσ ἀπωθεῖσθαι πάλιν εἰσ τὴν οἰκείαν ἕδραν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing

  2. a casting about

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION