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λαισήιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαισήιον λαισήιου

Structure: λαισηι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: la/sios

Sense

  1. a, shield or target

Declension

Second 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

  • ἔστι μοι πλοῦτοσ μέγασ δόρυ καὶ ξίφοσ καὶ τὸ καλὸν λαισήιον, πρόβλημα χρωτόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 9:3)
  • τοὶ δὲ μὴ τολμῶντ’ ἔχειν δόρυ καὶ ξίφοσ καὶ τὸ καλὸν λαισήιον, πρόβλημα χρωτόσ, πάντεσ γόνυ πεπτηῶτεσ ἐμὸν κυνέοντι, δεσπόταν καὶ μέγαν βασιλῆα φωνέοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 10:3)
  • οὗτοι δ’ αὖ περὶ μὲν τῇσι κεφαλῇσι κράνεα ἐπιχώρια, λαισήια δὲ εἶχον ἀντ’ ἀσπίδων ὠμοβοέησ πεποιημένα, καὶ κιθῶνασ εἰρινέουσ ἐνδεδυκότεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 91 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a

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

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