Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἁμαξιαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁμαξιαῖος ἁμαξιαῖη ἁμαξιαῖον

Structure: ἁμαξιαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/maca

Sense

  1. large enough to load a wagon

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ τὸ πᾶν οὕτωσ ἀκριβῶσ φράσσεται, ὥστε καὶ ἀκοντιστὰσ ἄνωθεν καθάπερ ἐπὶ στέγησ διαθέοντασ δέχεσθαι, καὶ λίθου ἁμαξιαίουσ μὴ διαλύειν τὴν σύγκλεισιν, ἀλλὰ κατακυλιομένουσ τῇ ῥύμῃ ὑπερπίπτειν ἐσ τὸ δάπεδον. (Arrian, chapter 11 8:1)
  • , λίθον ἁμαξιαῖον, καὶ σφόδρ’ εὐτελὲσ λέγω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 60 1:3)
  • οἱο͂ν τὰ ἁμαξιαῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 12 2:6)
  • ὧν ἐνίουσ εἶναι καὶ ἁμαξιαίουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 315)
  • ὃ καὶ πάντων ἐστὶν δεινότατον, εἰ Καλλικλῆσ μὲν εἰσ τὸ χωρίον εἰσπεσόντοσ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ἁμαξιαίουσ λίθουσ προσκομίσασ ἀποικοδομεῖ, τοῦ δὲ πατρόσ, ὅτι τοῦτο παθόντοσ τοῦ χωρίου περιῳκοδόμησεν, ὡσ ἀδικοῦντοσ ἐμοὶ βλάβησ εἴληχε δίκην. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 25:3)

Synonyms

  1. large enough to load a wagon

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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