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πέλτη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέλτη

Structure: πελτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a small light shield, without a rim, a target
  2. a body of
  3. a horse's ornament
  4. a shaft, pole

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πέλτη πέλτᾱ πέλται
Genitive πέλτης πέλταιν πελτῶν
Dative πέλτῃ πέλταιν πέλταις
Accusative πέλτην πέλτᾱ πέλτᾱς
Vocative πέλτη πέλτᾱ πέλται

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

  • ἐγνώρισαν γὰρ με κἀκεῖνοι ἰδόντεσ ἀπὸ τῆσ πέλτησ μάλιστα καὶ τῶν φαλάρων καὶ τοῦ λόφου. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:2)
  • διὰ δὲ τῆσ πείρασ τῆσ εὐχρηστίασ ἀποδοχῆσ τυγχανούσησ, οἱ πρότερον ἀπὸ τῶν ἀσπίδων ὁπλῖται καλούμενοι τότε ἀπὸ τῆσ πέλτησ πελτασταὶ μετωνομάσθησαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 44 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a small light shield

  2. a body of

  3. a horse's ornament

  4. a shaft

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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