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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν ἔπαλξισ πλούτου πρὸσ κόρον ἀνδρὶ λακτίσαντι μέγαν Δίκασ βωμὸν εἰσ ἀφάνειαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 17)
  • ἡ γραῦσ ἡ φθονερὴ παρεκέκλιτο γείτονι κούρῃ δόχμιον ἐν λέκτρῳ νῶτον ἐρεισαμένη, προβλὴσ ὥσ τισ ἔπαλξισ ἀνέμβατοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2941)
  • ἅμα δὲ τὸ τεῖχόσ σφι, τὸ ἐν τῷ Ἰσθμῷ ἐτείχεον, καὶ ἤδη ἐπάλξισ ἐλάμβανε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 7 2:2)

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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