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ἔπαλξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαλξις ἔπαλξεως

Structure: ἐπαλξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pale/cw

Sense

  1. a means of defence, battlements, the battlements, parapet
  2. a defence, protection

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔπαλξις ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις
Genitive ἐπάλξεως ἐπάλξοιν ἐπάλξεων
Dative ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξοιν ἐπάλξεσιν*
Accusative έ̓παλξιν ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις
Vocative έ̓παλξι ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις

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

  • μακρὰν ἄπεχε ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου, ὃσ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν τοῦ φονεύειν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑποπτεύσῃσ φόβον θανάτου. κἂν προσέλθῃσ, μὴ πλημμελήσῃσ, ἵνα μὴ ἀφέληται τὴν ζωήν σου. ἐπίγνωθι ὅτι ἐν μέσῳ παγίδων διαβαίνεισ καὶ ἐπὶ ἐπάλξεων πόλεων περιπατεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 9:13)
  • μάρτυρεσ δέ μοι πύργων πυλωροὶ κἀπὸ τειχέων σκοποί, οἳ πολλάκισ μ’ ἐφηῦρον ἐξ ἐπάλξεων πλεκταῖσιν ἐσ γῆν σῶμα κλέπτουσαν τόδε. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:9)
  • ἀλλ’ εἶμι καὶ στὰσ ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων σφάξασ ἐμαυτὸν σηκὸν ἐσ μελαμβαθῆ δράκοντοσ, ἔνθ’ ὁ μάντισ ἐξηγήσατο, ἐλευθερώσω γαῖαν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 9:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔσχε μαργῶντ’ αὐτὸν ἐναλίου θεοῦ Περικλύμενοσ παῖσ λᾶαν ἐμβαλὼν κάρᾳ ἁμαξοπληθῆ, γεῖσ’ ἐπάλξεων ἄπο· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 10:2)
  • ὁρῶ δὲ Τυδέα καὶ παρασπιστὰσ πυκνοὺσ Αἰτωλίσιν λόγχαισιν εἰσ ἄκρον στόμα πύργων ἀκοντίζοντασ, ὥστ’ ἐπάλξεων λιπεῖν ἐρίπνασ φυγάδασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. a means of defence

  2. a defence

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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