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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

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

  • καὶ παλαιστὴν ἕξουσιν γεῖσοσ λελαξευμένον ἔσωθεν κύκλῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ τραπέζασ ἐπάνωθεν στέγασ τοῦ καλύπτεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑετοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ ξηρασίασ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 40:42)
  • ἄν τισ ἑστιᾷ, πάρειμι πρῶτοσ, ὥστ’ ἤδη πάλαι ζωμὸσ καλοῦμαι, δεῖ τιν’ ἄρασθαι μέσον τῶν παροινούντων, παλαιστὴν νόμισον Ἀργεῖόν μ’ ὁρᾶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 343)
  • τοῖον παλαιστὴν νῦν παρασκευάζεται ἐπ’ αὐτὸσ αὑτῷ, δυσμαχώτατον τέρασ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode7)
  • σκέψασθε δ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅτι Ἀχαιοὶ μὲν οἱ ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ ἐδημοκρατοῦντο, τούτων δ’ ἐν Πελλήνῃ νῦν καταλέλυκε τὸν δῆμον ὁ Μακεδὼν ἐκβαλὼν τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺσ πλείστουσ, τὰ δ’ ἐκείνων τοῖσ οἰκέταισ δέδωκε, Χαίρωνα δὲ τὸν παλαιστὴν τύραννον ἐγκατέστησεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 13:3)
  • ‐ Καὶ γὰρ τὸ παγκρατιαστὴν οἶμαι ποιοῦν καλὸν τοῦτο παλαιστὴν οὐκ ἀγαθὸν ποιεῖ, δρομέα δὲ καὶ γελοιότατον· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 5:2)

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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