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ὁπλομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπλομαχία

Structure: ὁπλομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o(ploma/xos

Sense

  1. a fighting with heavy arms, the art of using them, the art of war, tactics

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁπλομαχία ὁπλομαχίᾱ ὁπλομαχίαι
Genitive ὁπλομαχίᾱς ὁπλομαχίαιν ὁπλομαχιῶν
Dative ὁπλομαχίᾱͅ ὁπλομαχίαιν ὁπλομαχίαις
Accusative ὁπλομαχίᾱν ὁπλομαχίᾱ ὁπλομαχίᾱς
Vocative ὁπλομαχίᾱ ὁπλομαχίᾱ ὁπλομαχίαι

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

  • "πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ καὶ ὁπλομαχίασ μαθήσεισ ἐν Μαντινείᾳ πρῶτον εὑρέθησαν Δημέου τὸ τέχνημα καταδείξαντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 41 1:3)
  • γυμνάσια γὰρ τίθεμεν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἅπαντα τοῖσ σώμασι διαπονήματα τοξικῆσ τε καὶ πάσησ ῥίψεωσ καὶ πελταστικῆσ καὶ πάσησ ὁπλομαχίασ καὶ διεξόδων τακτικῶν καὶ ἁπάσησ πορείασ στρατοπέδων καὶ στρατοπεδεύσεων καὶ ὅσα εἰσ ἱππικὴν μαθήματα συντείνει. (Plato, Laws, book 7 158:2)

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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