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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

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

  • ζητοῦντοσ αὐτοῦ τῆσ σελήνησ τὰσ ὁδοὺσ καὶ τὰσ περιφορὰσ εἶτ’ ἄνω κεχηνότοσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ νύκτωρ γαλεώτησ κατέχεσεν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:34)
  • ἥσθην γαλεώτῃ καταχέσαντι Σωκράτουσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:35)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἑσπέρια τῆσ ὕλησ καὶ οὐραῖα Ταριχᾶνεσ οἰκοῦσιν, ἔθνοσ ἐγχελυωπὸν καὶ καραβοπρόσωπον, μάχιμον καὶ θρασὺ καὶ ὠμοφάγον τὰ δὲ τῆσ ἑτέρασ πλευρᾶσ κατὰ τὸν δεξιὸν τοῖχον Τριτωνομένδητεσ, τὰ μὲν ἄνω ἀνθρώποισ ἐοικότεσ, τὰ δὲ κάτω τοῖσ γαλεώταισ, ἧττον μέντοι ἄδικοὶ εἰσιν τῶν ἄλλων τὰ λαιὰ δὲ Καρκινόχειρεσ καὶ Θυννοκέφαλοι συμμαχίαν τε καὶ φιλίαν πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ πεποιημένοι· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 35:4)
  • τοῦ Θρασυβούλου δὲ τῇ εἰκόνι γαλεώτησ πρὸσ τὸν ὦμον προσέρπων ἐστὶ τὸν δεξιόν, καὶ κύων ἱερεῖον δὴ παρ’ αὐτῷ κεῖται διατετμημένοσ τε δίχα καὶ φαίνων τὸ ἧπαρ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 7:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο δ’ οἰκείωσ εἰρῆσθαι τοῖσ συμβαίνουσι περὶ τὸ Σκύλλαιον καὶ τὴν θήραν τῶν γαλεωτῶν τὸ ἐπὶ τῆσ Σκύλλησ "αὐτοῦ δ’ ἰχθυάᾳ σκόπελον περιμαιμώωσα δελφῖνάσ τε κύνασ τε, καὶ εἴ ποθι "μεῖζον ἕλῃσι κῆτοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 30:5)

Synonyms

  1. a spotted lizard

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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