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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

  • οὐ παλαιστικὴν οὐδὲ σαρκοῦσαν καὶ πυκνοῦσαν τὰ ἐκτὸσ ὥσπερ οἰκοδομήματοσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ζωτικωτάτοισ μέρεσι ῥώμην ἐνδιάθετον καὶ τόνον ἀληθινὸν ἐμποιοῦσαν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 16 2:1)
  • παλαιστικὴν γὰρ τέχνην εὑρ͂ε Θησεὺσ πρῶτοσ καὶ πάλησ κατέστη ὕστερον ἀπ’ ἐκείνου διδασκαλία· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 39 5:5)

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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