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γαλεώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαλεώτης

Structure: γαλεωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: gale/h

Sense

  1. a spotted lizard

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γαλεώτης γαλεώτᾱ γαλεῶται
Genitive γαλεώτου γαλεώταιν γαλεωτῶν
Dative γαλεώτῃ γαλεώταιν γαλεώταις
Accusative γαλεώτην γαλεώτᾱ γαλεώτᾱς
Vocative γαλεῶτα γαλεώτᾱ γαλεῶται

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

  • οὐκ ἀντίποδασ οἰκεῖν, ὥσπερ θρῖπασ ἢ γαλεώτασ τραπέντα ἄνω τὰ κάτω τῇ γῇ προσισχομένουσ; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 7 4:1)
  • " τοὺσ γὰρ θύννουσ ἀγεληδὸν φερομένουσ παρὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν, ἐπειδὰν ἐμπέσωσι καὶ κωλυθῶσι τῆσ Σικελίασ ἅψασθαι, περιπίπτειν τοῖσ μείζοσι τῶν ζῴων, οἱο͂ν δελφίνων καὶ κυνῶν καὶ ἄλλων κητωδῶν, ἐκ δὲ τῆσ θήρασ αὐτῶν πιαίνεσθαι τοὺσ γαλεώτασ, οὓσ καὶ ξιφίασ λέγεσθαι καὶ κύνασ φησί· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 30:6)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ θήρασ αὐτῶν πιαίνεσθαι τοὺσ γαλεώτασ, οὓσ καὶ ξιφίασ λέγεσθαι καὶ κύνασ φησί. (Polybius, Histories, book 34, ii. de ulixis navigatione, prope siciliam praesertim 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spotted lizard

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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