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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

  • ὁ δὲ πολιτικὸσ αὐτοῦ διάλογοσ ἁπάντων καταδρομὴν περιέχει τῶν Ἀθήνησιν δημαγωγῶν, ὁ δ’ Ἀρχέλαοσ Γοργίου τοῦ ῥήτοροσ, ἡ δ’ Ἀσπασία τῶν Περικλέουσ υἱῶν Ξανθίππου καὶ Παράλου διαβολήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 633)
  • χειροτονοῦσι δὲ καὶ ταμίαν τῆσ Παράλου καὶ νῦν τῆσ τοῦ Ἄμμωνοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 61 7:1)
  • λαμβάνει δὲ ὁ Λύσανδροσ τρισχιλίουσ ἄνδρασ αἰχμαλώτουσ μετὰ τῶν στρατηγῶν, ἅπαν δὲ τὸ ναύσταθμον ἄνευ τῆσ Παράλου καὶ τῶν μετὰ Κόνωνοσ ἐκφυγουσῶν. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 6:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐχειροτονήσατε τοῦτον τῆσ Παράλου ταμίαν, ὄντα τοιοῦτον οἱο͂́σ ἐστι, καὶ πάλιν ἵππαρχον, ὀχεῖσθαι διὰ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ ταῖσ πομπαῖσ οὐ δυνάμενον, καὶ μυστηρίων ἐπιμελητὴν καὶ ἱεροποιόν ποτε καὶ βοώνην, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα δή. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 223:2)
  • καὶ μὴν εἴ τισ αὐτοῦ ταῦτ’ ἀφέλοιτο ἱππάρχηκα, τῆσ Παράλου ταμίασ γέγονα, τίνοσ ἔστ’ ἄξιοσ οὗτοσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 224:2)

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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