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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

  • λάμπει δ’ ὑπὸ μαρμαρυγαῖσ ὁ χρυσὸσ ὑψιδαιδάλτων τριπόδων σταθέντων πάροιθε ναοῦ, τόθι μέγιστον ἄλσοσ Φοίβου παρὰ Κασταλίασ ῥεέθροισ Δελφοὶ διέπουσι. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 3 4:2)
  • φράζευ Ἐρεχθεί̈δη λογίων ὁδόν, ἥν σοι Ἀπόλλων ἰάχεν ἐξ ἀδύτοιο διὰ τριπόδων ἐριτίμων. (Aristotle, Episode 1:2)
  • δεῖ δὲ νοεῖν τρίποδα τοῦ Διονύσου τὸν κρατῆρα, ἦν γὰρ τὸ ἀρχαῖον δύο γένη τριπόδων, οὓσ καλεῖσθαι λέβητασ συνέβαινεν ἀμφοτέρουσ ι ἐμπυριβήτησ ὁ καὶ λοετροχόοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 6 1:2)
  • μαίουσα ἂν πεφυρμένα ἐσῆλθεσ αἵ τε καὶ ἐκ τριπόδων καθαρμάτεσσιν ἐπισπώμενα τῷ παλαμναίῳ συμπλεχθεῖσα. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 10 6:3)
  • "ἱστορεῖ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ Φαινίασ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ἐν Σικελίᾳ τυράννων, ὡσ χαλκῶν ὄντων τῶν παλαιῶν ἀναθημάτων καὶ τριπόδων καὶ λεβήτων καὶ ἐγχειριδίων, ὧν ἐφ’ ἑνὸσ καὶ ἐπιγεγράφθαι φησίν θάησαί μ’ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1921)

Synonyms

  1. three feet long

Related

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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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