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φάλαγξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάλαγξ φάλαγγος

Structure: φαλαγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. battle order, array
  2. line or rank of an army
  3. phalanx: a clustered mass of infantry
  4. main body, center (as opposed to the periphery)
  5. round piece of wood: trunk, log
  6. (in the plural) rollers (Latin: palangae)
  7. the beam of a balance
  8. the bone between two joints of a finger or toe
  9. spider

Declension

Third 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

  • "τούτου δὲ γενομένου ἑδρασθῆναι τὸ πλοῖον ἀσφαλῶσ ἐπὶ τῶν προειρημένων φαλάγγων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3717)
  • πῶσ οὖν οὐκ ἔμελλεν ἄνθρωποσ ψόφον ὅπλων φοβεῖσθαι καὶ σύρρηγμα φαλάγγων ὁ φοβούμενοσ φωνῆεν φωνήεντι συγκροῦσαι καὶ συλλαβῇ τὸ ἰσόκωλον ἐνδεὲσ ἐξενεγκεῖν; (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 8 3:1)
  • ἐὰν δέ ποτε αὖ ἢ φαλάγγων ἀντιτεταγμένων ἢ χωρίων ἑκατέροισ ὑπαρχόντων ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τοῖσ ἱππεῦσιν ἀναστροφαί τε καὶ διώξεισ καὶ ἀποχωρήσεισ γίγνωνται, εἰώθασι μὲν ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων ὁρμᾶν μὲν ἐκ τῶν ἀναστροφῶν βραδέωσ ἀμφότεροι, τὸ δ’ ἐν μέσῳ τάχιστα ἐλαύνειν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. battle order

  2. line or rank of an army

  3. round piece of wood

  4. rollers

  5. the beam of a balance

  6. the bone between two joints of a finger or toe

  7. spider

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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