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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

  • ΚΑΙ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Ἰουδίθ. ἀκούσατε δή μου, ἀδελφοί, καὶ λαβόντεσ τὴν κεφαλὴν ταύτην κρεμάσατε αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐπάλξεωσ τοῦ τείχουσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 14:1)
  • ὅτε δὲ τὰσ σαμβύκασ ἐγχειρήσαιεν ἐξαίρειν, ὄργανα παρ’ ὅλον τὸ τεῖχοσ ἡτοιμάκει, τὸν μὲν λοιπὸν χρόνον ἀφανῆ, κατὰ δὲ τὸν τῆσ χρείασ καιρὸν ἐκ τῶν ἔσω μερῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ τείχουσ ἀνιστάμενα καὶ προπίπτοντα πολὺ τῆσ ἐπάλξεωσ ταῖσ κεραίαισ· (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 5 8:1)

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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