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στέροψ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: στέροψ στέροπος

Structure: στεροπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: steroph/

Sense

  1. flashing

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

  • ὦ μεγαλοσμαράγου στεροπᾶσ ῥοίζημα, τί ῥέξεισ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 1:8)
  • καὶ ὁ Ῥηγῖνοσ δὲ Ἴβυκοσ βοᾷ καὶ κέκραγεν ἦρι μὲν αἵ τε Κυδώνιαι μαλίδεσ ἀρδόμεναι ῥόαι τ’ ἐκ ποταμῶν ἵνα παρθένων κᾶποσ ἀκήρατοσ, αἵ τ’ οἰνανθίδεσ αὐξόμεναι σκιεροῖσιν ὑφ’ ἑρ́νεσιν οἰναρέοισ θαλέθοισιν ἐμοὶ δ’ ἔροσ οὐδεμίαν κατάκοιτοσ ὡρ́αν ἅθ’ ὑπὸ στεροπᾶσ φλέγων Θρηίκιοσ βορέασ, ἀίσσων παρὰ Κύπριδοσ ἀζαλέαισ μανίαισιν ἐρεμνὸσ ἀθαμβὴσ ἐγκρατέωσ πάϊθεν φυλάσσει ἡμετέρασ φρένασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 761)
  • λαμπραὶ δ’ ἦλθον ἀκτῖνεσ στεροπᾶσ ἀπορηγνύμεναι· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 61:2)

Synonyms

  1. flashing

Similar forms

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

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