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παγκράτιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: παγκράτιον παγκρατίου

Structure: παγκρατι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pagkrath/s

Sense

  1. pankration, a complete contest, an exercise of the Greek youths which combined both wrestling and boxing
  2. Drimia maritima, sea squill, red squill, sea onion

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

  • παγκρατίοισ τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν ἀλλὰ βληχροῖσ περιπάτοισ καὶ χορείαισ ἐμμελέσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖσ οἰησόμεθα δεῖν τὰσ ψυχὰσ διαφέρειν μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον μήτε πράγμασι μήτε φροντίσι μήτε σοφιστικοῖσ ἀγῶσι πρὸσ ἅμιλλαν ἐπιδεικτικὴν ἢ νικητικὴν περαινομένοισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. Drimia maritima

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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