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τρίβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίβολος τρίβολον

Structure: τριβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = tribelh/s

Sense

  1. a caltrop, a three-spiked implement
  2. a prickly plant, a burr, thistle
  3. a threshing-machine, boards with sharp stones fixed in the bottom

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative τρίβολος τρίβολον
Genitive τριβόλου τριβόλου
Dative τριβόλῳ τριβόλῳ
Accusative τρίβολον τρίβολον
Vocative τρίβολε τρίβολον
DualN/A/V τριβόλω τριβόλω
G/D τριβόλοιν τριβόλοιν
PluralNominative τρίβολοι τρίβολα
Genitive τριβόλων τριβόλων
Dative τριβόλοις τριβόλοις
Accusative τριβόλους τρίβολα
Vocative τρίβολοι τρίβολα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective τρίβολος τριβόλου τριβολώτερος τριβολωτέρου τριβολώτατος τριβολωτάτου
Adverb τριβόλως τριβολώτερον τριβολώτατα

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 μὲν μελιαδέοσ, ἄλλοτε δ’ ὀξυτέρου τριβόλων ἀρυτημένοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 7 2:2)
  • ἐφεστήκεσαν δὲ ταῖσ ἁμάξαισ τετρακύκλοισ ὑπαρχούσαισ καὶ τῶν ψιλῶν συχνοὶ τοξόται καὶ χερμάται καὶ τριβόλων σιδηρῶν σφενδονῆται καὶ παρ’ αὐτὰσ κάτωθεν ἔτι πλείουσ ἕτεροι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 1 6:2)
  • μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλὰσ ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα; (, chapter 1 260:2)

Related

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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