Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νησομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νησομαχία

Structure: νησομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xh

Sense

  1. an island-fight

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

  • ταῦτα μὲν τὰ κατὰ τὴν νησομαχίαν γενόμενα. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 42:11)

Synonyms

  1. an island-fight

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

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