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παρασπιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρασπιστής παρασπιστοῦ

Structure: παρασπιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from paraspi/zw

Sense

  1. a companion in arms

Declension

First 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

  • ὁρῶ δὲ Τυδέα καὶ παρασπιστὰσ πυκνοὺσ Αἰτωλίσιν λόγχαισιν εἰσ ἄκρον στόμα πύργων ἀκοντίζοντασ, ὥστ’ ἐπάλξεων λιπεῖν ἐρίπνασ φυγάδασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 11:2)
  • τά τε γὰρ ἄλλ’, ὅσα ἐν τοῖσ ἄριστα μαχησομένοισ βουλοίμεθ’ ἂν εἶναι, κἀν τούτοισ ἔνεστι τοῖσ ἀνδράσι, καὶ τὸ μὴ προλιπεῖν τοὺσ παρασπιστὰσ κάμνοντασ τούτοισ μᾶλλον ὑπάρξει ἀδελφοῖσ οὖσι παρ’ οὕστινασ ἄλλουσ Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Ἀλβανῶν, ἥ τε φιλοτιμία τῶν ἄλλων νέων χαλεπὴ λυθῆναι δι’ ἑτέρου τινὸσ οὖσα τρόπου ταχεῖαν ἕξει τὴν κρίσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 14 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a companion in arms

Related

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

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