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τάπις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τάπις τάπιδος

Structure: ταπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = da/pis, ta/phs, Xen.

Sense

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

  • ἐκείνοισ γὰρ πρῶτον μὲν οὐκέτι τὰσ εὐνὰσ μόνον ἀρκεῖ μαλακῶσ ὑποστόρνυσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἤδη καὶ τῶν κλινῶν τοὺσ πόδασ ἐπὶ ταπίδων τιθέασιν, ὅπωσ μὴ ἀντερείδῃ τὸ δάπεδον, ἀλλ’ ὑπείκωσιν αἱ τάπιδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 103)
  • ἐκείνοισ γὰρ πρῶτον μὲν τὰσ εὐνὰσ οὐ μόνον ἀρκεῖ μαλακῶσ ὑποστόρνυσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἤδη καὶ τῶν κλινῶν τοὺσ πόδασ ἐπὶ ταπίδων τιθέασιν, ὅπωσ μὴ ἀντερείδῃ τὸ δάπεδον, ἀλλ’ ὑπείκωσιν αἱ τάπιδεσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 24:2)

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

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