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ἀμυντήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμυντήριον

Structure: ἀμυντηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)mu/nw

Sense

  1. a means of defence

Declension

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 τῶν ἀμυντηρίων τὰ μὲν ἀλεξιφάρμακα καὶ θεῖα καὶ ἀνθρώπινα, τὰ δὲ προβλήματα· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 135:5)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ὅτι ἐκ τῶν ἀμυντηρίων αὐτοῖσ ὅπλων ἀνήφθη, μετὰ πολλοῦ θάρσουσ προῄεσαν ἐκ τοῦ χάρακοσ καὶ συρράξαντεσ τοῖσ Σαβίνοισ ἐμάχοντο πολλαπλασίοισ ἐλάττουσ ἐν τῷ θαρρεῖν τὸ πιστὸν ἔχοντεσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 46 4:1)
  • ζημία δὴ τῷ τὴν τοιαύτην ἀμυντηρίων ὅπλων εἰσ τοὐναντίον ἀφέντι δύναμιν τίσ ἄρα γίγνοιτ’ ἂν πρόσφοροσ; (Plato, Laws, book 12 24:2)
  • ἴδιον δέ τι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐστι περὶ τὴν τῶν ἀμυντηρίων κατασκευήν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 33 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a means of defence

Related

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

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