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τριπόδης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριπόδης τριπόδου

Structure: τριποδ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pou/s

Sense

  1. three feet long

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τριπόδης τριπόδᾱ τριπόδαι
Genitive τριπόδου τριπόδαιν τριποδῶν
Dative τριπόδῃ τριπόδαιν τριπόδαις
Accusative τριπόδην τριπόδᾱ τριπόδᾱς
Vocative τριπόδα τριπόδᾱ τριπόδαι

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

  • καὶ ὅλωσ ἔνθα ἂν ἡ πρόμαντισ πιοῦσα τοῦ ἱεροῦ νάματοσ καὶ μασησαμένη τῆσ δάφνησ καὶ τὸν τρίποδα διασείσασα κελεύῃ παρεῖναι, ἀόκνον ’χρὴ αὐτίκα . (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:6)
  • θάσσει δὲ γυνὴ τρίποδα ζάθεον Δελφίσ, ἀείδουσ’ Ἕλλησι βοάσ, ἃσ ἂν Ἀπόλλων κελαδήσῃ. (Euripides, Ion, choral, anapests4)
  • εἴπερ καθίζει τρίποδα κοινὸν Ἑλλάδοσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 3:15)
  • πρόσπολοι γυναῖκεσ, αἳ τῶνδ’ ἀμφὶ κρηπῖδασ δόμων θυοδόκων φρούρημ’ ἔχουσαι δεσπότιν φυλάσσετε, ἐκλέλοιπ’ ἤδη τὸν ἱερὸν τρίποδα καὶ χρηστήριον Ξοῦθοσ, ἢ μίμνει κατ’ οἶκον ἱστορῶν ἀπαιδίαν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees1)
  • τρίποδα γὰρ χρηστήριον λιποῦσα θριγκοῦ τοῦδ’ ὑπερβάλλω πόδα Φοίβου προφῆτισ, τρίποδοσ ἀρχαῖον νόμον σῴζουσα, πασῶν Δελφίδων ἐξαίρετοσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. three feet long

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

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