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στεγαστρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεγαστρίς στεγαστρίδος

Structure: στεγαστριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stega/zw

Sense

  1. that serves for covering

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

  • ἐπεὰν γὰρ ἐν τοῖσι Ἀρμενίοισι τοῖσι κατύπερθε Ἀσσυρίων οἰκημένοισι νομέασ ἰτέησ ταμόμενοι ποιήσωνται, περιτείνουσι τούτοισι διφθέρασ στεγαστρίδασ ἔξωθεν ἐδάφεοσ τρόπον, οὔτε πρύμνην ἀποκρίνοντεσ οὔτε πρῴρην συνάγοντεσ, ἀλλ’ ἀσπίδοσ τρόπον κυκλοτερέα ποιήσαντεσ καὶ καλάμησ πλήσαντεσ πᾶν τὸ πλοῖον τοῦτο ἀπιεῖσι κατὰ τὸν ποταμὸν φέρεσθαι, φορτίων πλήσαντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 194 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. that serves for covering

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

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