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μονομαχικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονομαχικός μονομαχική μονομαχικόν

Structure: μονομαχικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from monoma/xos

Sense

  1. of or in single combat

Declension

First/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

  • ὅσῳ δὲ συνέβαινε τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐκτὸσ τάξεωσ ποιεῖσθαι τὴν μάχην ἀναμὶξ κατὰ τὰσ αὑτῶν προαιρέσεισ, τοσούτῳ λαμπρότεροσ ἦν ὁ κίνδυνοσ, ὡσ ἂν ἐκ τοσούτου πλήθουσ κατ’ ἄνδρα καὶ κατὰ ζυγὸν οἱονεὶ μονομαχικῆσ συνεστώσησ περὶ τοὺσ ἀγωνιζομένουσ τῆσ φιλοτιμίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 45 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or in single combat

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

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