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τροχαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τροχαῖος

Structure: τροχαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. running, tripping
  2. a trochee or foot consisting of a long and short syllable

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative τροχαῖος τρόχαιον
Genitive τροχαίου τροχαίου
Dative τροχαίῳ τροχαίῳ
Accusative τροχαῖον τρόχαιον
Vocative τροχαῖε τρόχαιον
DualN/A/V τροχαίω τροχαίω
G/D τροχαίοιν τροχαίοιν
PluralNominative τροχαῖοι τρόχαια
Genitive τροχαίων τροχαίων
Dative τροχαίοις τροχαίοις
Accusative τροχαίους τρόχαια
Vocative τροχαῖοι τρόχαια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective τροχαῖος τροχαίου τροχαιώτερος τροχαιωτέρου τροχαιώτατος τροχαιωτάτου
Adverb τροχαίως τροχαιώτερον τροχαιώτατα

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

  • ἐὰν δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ μακρᾶσ ἄρχηται, τροχαῖοσ, καὶ ἔστι μαλακώτεροσ θατέρου καὶ ἀγεννέστεροσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1714)
  • ὁ δὲ τροχαῖοσ κορδακικώτεροσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 4:2)
  • ὁ δὲ τροχαῖοσ ἐκλήθη ὅτι τροχαλὸν ἔχει τὸν ῥυθμόν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 187)

Synonyms

  1. running

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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