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παλαιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαιστής παλαιστοῦ

Structure: παλαιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: palai/w

Sense

  1. a wrestler
  2. a rival, adversary, a candidate, suitor

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παλαιστής παλαιστᾱ́ παλαισταί
Genitive παλαιστοῦ παλαισταῖν παλαιστῶν
Dative παλαιστῇ παλαισταῖν παλαισταῖς
Accusative παλαιστήν παλαιστᾱ́ παλαιστᾱ́ς
Vocative παλαιστά 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

  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. a wrestler

Related

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

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