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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • λέγε νυν ἀνύσασ τι τὴν τρόπιν τοῦ πράγματοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:25)
  • 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

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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