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τετραπόδων (tetrapodon)

τετραπόδων is an Ancient Greek form of τετράπους, meaning “four-footed; of cattle”.

It can also be a form of τετράποδος, “four-footed”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 24.1: … ὴ τὸ παλαιὸν ἀπείρητο, καὶ τὸ φαίνειν ἐνδεικνύμενον τοὺς ἐξάγοντας κληθῆναι συκοφαντεῖν. ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ βλάβης τετραπόδων νόμον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ κύνα δακόντα παραδοῦναι κελεύει κλοιῷ τριπήχει δεδεμένον· τὸ μὲν ἐνθύμημα χάριεν πρὸς ἀσφάλει …

All forms of τετράπους (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.