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ὑοφόρβιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑοφόρβιον ὑοφόρβιου

Structure: ὑοφορβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = suofo/rbion

Sense

  1. a herd of swine

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑοφόρβιον ὑοφορβίω ὑοφόρβια
Genitive ὑοφορβίου ὑοφορβίοιν ὑοφορβίων
Dative ὑοφορβίῳ ὑοφορβίοιν ὑοφορβίοις
Accusative ὑοφόρβιον ὑοφορβίω ὑοφόρβια
Vocative ὑοφόρβιον ὑοφορβίω ὑοφόρβια

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

  • οὕτωσ δ’ ἐστὶ δαψιλῆ καὶ τὰ ποίμνια καὶ τὰ ὑοφόρβια ὥστε τῶν σάγων καὶ τῆσ ταριχείασ ἀφθονίαν μὴ τῇ Ῥώμῃ χορηγεῖσθαι μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ πλείστοισ μέρεσι τῆσ Ἰταλίασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 6:17)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἡ γεωργουμένη γῆ πολλοὺσ καὶ παντοίουσ ἐκφέρει καρπούσ, καὶ αἱ ὗλαι τοσαύτην ἔχουσι βάλανον ὥστ’ ἐκ τῶν ἐντεῦθεν ὑοφορβίων ἡ Ῥώμη τρέφεται τὸ πλέον. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. a herd of swine

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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