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παλαιστή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαιστή

Structure: παλαιστ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: later form of palasth/, q. v.

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παλαιστή παλαιστᾱ́ παλαισταί
Genitive παλαιστῆς παλαισταῖν παλαιστῶν
Dative παλαιστῇ παλαισταῖν παλαισταῖς
Accusative παλαιστήν παλαιστᾱ́ παλαιστᾱ́ς
Vocative παλαιστή παλαιστᾱ́ παλαισταί

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

  • οὐ γὰρ πυγμάχοι εἰμὲν ἀμύμονεσ οὐδὲ παλαισταί, οὐδὲ ποσὶ κραιπνῶσ θέομεν, ἀλλ’ ἐν πᾶσι τούτοισ ἀτυχέστεροι τῶν θηρίων ἐσμέν· (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 12:1)
  • "συνεχῶσ γελοιάζων, ὅπωσ μὴ γελοῖοσ γένῃ, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ συνεχῶσ παλαίοντεσ παλαισταί; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 21)
  • "συνεχῶσ γελοιάζων, ὅπωσ μὴ γελοῖοσ γένῃ, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ συνεχῶσ παλαίοντεσ παλαισταί; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 2 1:1)
  • ὡσ γὰρ οἱ παλαισταὶ τὸ σῶμα ποιοῦσι ταπεινόν, ὅπωσ ἑτέρουσ καταβάλωσιν , οὕτω τῷ ψέγειν ἑαυτοὺσ εἰσ τὸ θαυμάζειν τοὺσ πλησίον ὑπορρέουσιν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 14 4:2)
  • τί δ’ εἰ ‐ σοφοὶ παλαισταὶ τῶν σοφῶν συνουσίᾳεἶπεν, εἰ ἠρόμεθα· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 27:10)

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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