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γαλεώτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: galeōtēs

Principal Part: γαλεώτης

Structure: γαλεωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: γαλέη

Sense

  1. a spotted lizard

Declension

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

  • 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

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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