Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

παλαιστιαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαιστιαῖος παλαιστιαῖη παλαιστιαῖον

Structure: παλαιστιαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: later form of palastiai=os.

Sense

Declension

First/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

  • τὴν μὲν οὖν στεφάνην παλαιστιαίαν εἰργάσαντο, τὰ δὲ κυμάτια στρεπτὰ τὴν ἀναγλυφὴν ἔχοντα σχοινοειδῆ τῇ τορείᾳ θαυμαστῶσ ἐκ τῶν τριῶν μερῶν μεμιμημένην. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 76:2)
  • τῶν δὲ στερεωτέρων οἱ μὲν στρογγύλοι παλαιστιαίαν ἔχουσι τὴν διάμετρον, οἱ δὲ τετράγωνοι τὴν πλευράν. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 23 9:1)

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

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