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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

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

  • ὡσ ναῦσ διερχομένη κυμαινόμενον ὕδωρ, ἧσ διαβάσησ οὐκ ἔστιν ἴχνοσ εὑρεῖν, οὐδὲ ἀτραπὸν τρόπιοσ αὐτῆσ ἐν κύμασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 5:10)
  • ἔνθ’ ἄρα τούσγε πλυμμυρίσ‐‐καὶ γάρ τ’ ἀναχάζεται ἠπείροιο ἦ θαμὰ δὴ τόδε χεῦμα, καὶ ἂψ ἐπερεύγεται ἀκτὰσ λάβρον ἐποιχόμενον‐‐μυχάτῃ ἐνέωσε τάχιστα ἠιόνι, τρόπιοσ δὲ μάλ’ ὕδασι παῦρον ἔλειπτο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:7)
  • τὸν μὲν ἐγὼν ἐσάωσα περὶ τρόπιοσ βεβαῶτα οἰο͂ν, ἐπεί οἱ νῆα θοὴν ἀργῆτι κεραυνῷ Ζεὺσ ἔλσασ ἐκέασσε μέσῳ ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 11:7)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ διὰ νηὸσ ἐφοίτων, ὄφρ’ ἀπὸ τοίχουσ λῦσε κλύδων τρόπιοσ, τὴν δὲ ψιλὴν φέρε κῦμα, ἐκ δέ οἱ ἱστὸν ἄραξε ποτὶ τρόπιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 50:10)
  • τὸν δ’ ἄρ’ ἐπὶ τρόπιοσ νεὸσ ἔκβαλε κῦμ’ ἐπὶ χέρσου, Φαιήκων ἐσ γαῖαν, οἳ ἀγχίθεοι γεγάασιν, οἳ δή μιν περὶ κῆρι θεὸν ὣσ τιμήσαντο καί οἱ πολλὰ δόσαν πέμπειν τέ μιν ἤθελον αὐτοὶ οἴκαδ’ ἀπήμαντον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. a ship's keel

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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