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στροφάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: στροφάς στροφάδος

Structure: στροφαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw

Sense

  1. turning round, revolving
  2. the drifting isles

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

  • ἄλλοτε δ’ αὖ πέρκασ, ὁτὲ δὲ στροφάδασ παρά πέτρην φυκίδασ ἀλφηστήν τε καὶ ἐν χροιῇσιν ἐρυθρὸν σκορπίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1106)
  • Στροφάδασ δὲ μετακλείουσ’ ἄνθρωποι νήσουσ τοῖό γ’ ἕκητι, πάροσ Πλωτὰσ καλέοντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 5:21)
  • Στροφάδασ φησὶ κεκλῆσθαι διὰ τὸ τοὺσ Βορεάδασ αὐτόθεν ὑποστρέψαι, στραφέντασ εἰσ τοὐπίσω, λαβὼν παρὰ Ἀντιμάχου· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other56)

Synonyms

  1. turning round

Related

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

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