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πάραλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάραλος πάραλον

Structure: παραλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. by or near the sea, near the salt
  2. concerned with the sea, naval
  3. the coast-land, the people of the coast-land
  4. the Paralus
  5. the crew of the Paralus

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

  • οἱ τῶνδε δ’ αὖ παῖδεσ γενόμενοι σὺν χρόνῳ πεπρωμένῳ Κυκλάδασ ἐποικήσουσι νησαίασ πόλεισ χέρσουσ τε παράλουσ, ὃ σθένοσ τἠμῇ χθονὶ δίδωσιν· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 3:6)
  • εἶτ’ αὖ λαλιὰν ἐπιτηδεῦσαι καὶ στωμυλίαν ἐδίδαξασ, ἣ ’ξεκένωσεν τάσ τε παλαίστρασ καὶ τὰσ πυγὰσ ἐνέτριψεν τῶν μειρακίων στωμυλλομένων, καὶ τοὺσ Παράλουσ ἀνέπεισεν ἀνταγορεύειν τοῖσ ἄρχουσιν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antepirrheme 1:24)

Synonyms

  1. by or near the sea

  2. the coast-land

Related

Similar forms

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

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