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παμμάχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παμμάχος παμμάχον

Structure: παμμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fighting with all, ready for every kind of contest

Examples

  • καὶ τὰν σιὰν δ’ αὖ τὰν κρατίσταν Χαλκίοικον ὕμνει τὰν πάμμαχον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric6)
  • Ὀρφεὺσ κιθάρᾳ, Ἡρακλῆσ πάμμαχον, πυγμὴν Πολυδεύκησ, πάλην Πηλεύσ, δίσκον Τελαμών, ἐνόπλιον Θησεύσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. fighting with all

Related

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

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