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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

  • δέξασθαί τε στροφὰσ λόγων νοῆσαί τε δικαιοσύνην ἀληθῆ καὶ κρίμα κατευθύνειν, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 1:3)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ πολυπειρίαν ποθεῖ τισ, οἶδε τὰ ἀρχαῖα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα εἰκάζειν, ἐπίσταται στροφὰσ λόγων καὶ λύσεισ αἰνιγμάτων, σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα προγινώσκει καὶ ἐκβάσεισ καιρῶν καὶ χρόνων. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 8:8)
  • τὴν μὲν οὖν γε σύντονον κίνησιν τῆσ ὀρχηστικῆσ καὶ στροφὰσ αὐτῆσ καὶ περιαγωγὰσ καὶ πηδήματα καὶ ὑπτιασμοὺσ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ τερπνὰ εἶναι συμβέβηκεν ὁρῶσιν, τοῖσ δὲ ἐνεργοῦσιν αὐτοῖσ ὑγιεινότατα· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 71:3)
  • χειμῶνοσ οὖν ὄντοσ κατακάμπτειν τὰσ στροφὰσ οὐ ῥᾴδιον, ἢν μὴ προίῃ θύρασι πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics6)
  • οὐδέ γε τοὺσ περιέχοντασ ὅλασ τὰσ στροφὰσ ῥυθμοὺσ καὶ τὰσ ἀντιστρόφουσ, ἀλλὰ δεῖ καὶ τούτουσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ διαμένειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 199)

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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