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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

  • καίτοι τί ἂν ἐποίησασ, εἴ σοι ἡ τῆσ Ἀργοῦσ τρόπισ ἐλάλησεν ὥσπερ ποτέ, ἢ ἡ φηγὸσ ἐν Δωδώνῃ αὐτόφωνοσ ἐμαντεύσατο, ἢ εἰ βύρσασ εἶδεσ ἑρπούσασ καὶ βοῶν κρέα μυκώμενα ἡμίοπτα ^ περιπεπαρμένα τοῖσ ὀβελοῖσ; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 2:8)
  • τρόπισ δ’ ἐλείφθη ποικίλων ἁρμοσμάτων, ἐφ’ ἧσ ἐσώθην μόλισ ἀνελπίστῳ τύχῃ Ἑλένη τε, Τροίασ ἣν ἀποσπάσασ ἔχω. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 1:3)
  • ἄγχι δέ οἱ ῥόπαλον θέτο, καί οἱ ἔνερθεν ποσσὶν ὑπεκλύσθη νηὸσ τρόπισ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 10:11)
  • ναῦσ ἐάγη, πέσεν ἱστόσ, ἔδυ τρόπισ, ὤλετο φόρτοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 103)
  • οὐλόμεναι νήεσσι Καφηρίδεσ, αἵ ποτε νόστον ὠλέσαθ’ Ἑλλήνων καὶ στόλον Ἰλιόθεν, πυρσὸσ ὅτε ψεύστασ χθονίησ δνοφερώτερα νυκτὸσ ἧψε σέλα, τυφλὴ δ’ ἔδραμε πᾶσα τρόπισ χοιράδασ ἐσ πέτρασ, Δαναοῖσ πάλιν Ἴλιοσ ἄλλη ἔπλετε, καὶ δεκέτουσ ἐχθρότεραι πολέμου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2891)

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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