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τρόπις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρόπις τρόπιος

Structure: τροπι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. a ship's keel, the keel

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τρόπις τρόπιε τρόπιες
Genitive τρόπιος τροπίοιν τροπίων
Dative τρόπῑ τροπίοιν τρόπισιν*
Accusative τρόπιν τρόπιε τρόπιας
Vocative τρόπι τρόπιε τρόπιες

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

  • τὴν λάλον αὐτῆσ τρόπιν, τὰ ἐν Λήμνῳ, τὸν Αἰήτην, τὸν Μηδείασ ὄνειρον, τὸν Ἀψύρτου σπαραγμὸν καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ παράπλῳ γενόμενα, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τὸν Πρωτεσίλαον καὶ τὴν Λαοδάμειαν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 53:1)
  • λέγε νυν ἀνύσασ τι τὴν τρόπιν τοῦ πράγματοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:25)
  • μανύει στιβαρᾶσ κατ’ ἐπωμίδοσ ἀρτιχάρακτον γράμμα, τίσ ἐκ χέρσου τάνδ’ ἐκύλισε τρόπιν φατὶ γὰρ ὡσ Ιἕρων Ιἑροκλέοσ Ἑλλάδι πάσᾳ καὶ νάσοισ καρπὸν πίονα δωροφορῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 3:2)
  • τὸ δὲ πολλὸν ὑπὸ τρόπιν ἐξεκυλίσθη, ἐκ δ’ αὐτὴν πρύμνηθεν ἀνείρυσε τηλόθι νῆα πετράων· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 9:36)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ πρῶτον τὴν ὀσφὺν ὡσ τρόπιν νεώσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2)

Synonyms

  1. a ship's keel

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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