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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

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

  • Πέρσαι καὶ Αἰθίοπεσ καὶ Λίβυεσ, πάντεσ περικεφαλαίαισ καὶ πέλταισ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 38:5)
  • καὶ ἐξελεύσονται οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ τὰσ πόλεισ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ καύσουσιν ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, πέλταισ καὶ κοντοῖσ καὶ τόξοισ καὶ τοξεύμασι καὶ ράβδοισ χειρῶν καὶ λόγχαισ. καὶ καύσουσιν ἐν αὐτοῖσ πῦρ ἑπτὰ ἔτη. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 39:9)
  • ἐπεὶ ἔν γε πέλταισ καὶ σαρίσσαισ καὶ ἀλαλαγμοῖσ καὶ συρράξεσιν ὅπλων ἀνίκητοσ ἦν καὶ Ταρρίασ ὁ Δεινομένουσ καὶ Ἀντιγένησ ὁ Πελληναῖοσ καὶ Φιλώτασ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 7 6:1)
  • ἐπεὶ ἔν γε πέλταισ καὶ σαρίσσαισ καὶ ἀλαλαγμοῖσ καὶ συρράξεσιν ὅπλων ἀνίκητοσ ἦν καὶ Ἀντιγένησ ὁ Δεινομένουσ καὶ Ἀντιγένησ ὁ Πελληναῖοσ καὶ Φιλώτασ ὁ Παρμενίωνοσ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ γύναια καὶ χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον οὐθέν τι βελτίουσ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων ἀλλὰ Ταρρίασ μὲν ὅτε τῶν χρεῶν ἠλευθέρου Μακεδόνασ Ἀλέξανδροσ καὶ διελύετο τοῖσ δανείσασιν ὑπὲρ πάντων, ψευσάμενοσ ὀφείλειν καὶ δανειστήν τινα φάσκοντα εἶναι τῇ τραπέζῃ προσ αγαγών· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 7 2:1)
  • μετὰ γὰρ τὴν μάχην σκυλεύοντεσ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ πέλταισ Ἀμαζονικαῖσ καὶ κοθόρνοισ ἐνετύγχανον, σῶμα δὲ οὐδὲν ὤφθη γυναικεῖον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 35 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a small light shield

  2. a body of

  3. a horse's ornament

  4. a shaft

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

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