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παλαιστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαιστικός παλαιστική παλαιστικόν

Structure: παλαιστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. expert in wrestling

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

  • λευκὴ μέν, οἱάν εἰκὸσ ἐκ κύκνου γεγενημένην, ἁπαλὴ δέ, ὡσ ἐν ᾠῷ τραφεῖσα, γυμνὰσ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ παλαιστική, καὶ οὕτω δή τι περισπούδαστοσ ὥστε καὶ πόλεμον ἀμφ’ αὐτῇ γενέσθαι, τοῦ Θησέωσ ἀώρον ἔτι ἁρπάσαντοσ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. expert in wrestling

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

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