Hellas Alive Dictionary - εγχεσπαλος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχέσπαλος ἐγχέσπαλον

Structure: ἐγχεσπαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pa/llw

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἐγχέσπαλος ἐγχεσπάλου	ἐγχεσπαλώτερος ἐγχεσπαλωτέρου	ἐγχεσπαλώτατος ἐγχεσπαλωτάτου
Adverb	ἐγχεσπάλως	ἐγχεσπαλώτερον	ἐγχεσπαλώτατα

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.

ἀλλ’ ἐπίκουροι πολλέων ἐκ πολίων ἐγχέσπαλοι ἄνδρεσ ἐάσιν, οἵ με μέγα πλάζουσι καὶ οὐκ εἰῶσ’ ἐθέλοντα Ἰλίου ἐκπέρσαι εὖ ναιόμενον πτολίεθρον. (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 11:8)

wielding the spear
- δορίπαλτος (wielding the spear)
- σακέσπαλος (wielding a shield)
- λόγχιμος (of a spear, of spears)
- κεραύνειος (wielding the thunder)

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

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