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μεσάγκυλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσάγκυλον μεσάγκυλου

Structure: μεσαγκυλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a javelin with a strap

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

  • λέγονται δὲ καὶ δόρατα ἀγκυλητὰ καὶ μεσάγκυλα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 22 1:5)
  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ δὲ δώδεκα Πέρσασ καὶ τελευταῖον τῆσ δεκάδοσ Μακεδόνα, δεκαστάτηρον καὶ τοῦτον, ὥστε ἐν τῇ δεκάδι τέσσαρασ μὲν εἶναι Μακεδόνασ, τοὺσ μὲν τῇ μισθοφορᾷ προὔχοντασ, τὸν δὲ τῇ ἀρχῇ τῆσ δεκάδοσ, δώδεκα δὲ Πέρσασ, τοὺσ μὲν Μακεδόνασ τὴν πάτριον ὅπλισιν ὡπλισμένουσ, τοὺσ δὲ Πέρσασ τοὺσ μὲν τοξότασ, τοὺσ δὲ καὶ μεσάγκυλα ἔχοντασ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 23 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a javelin with a strap

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

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