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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

  • πέλτη δ’ ἐπ’ ὤμων χρυσοκολλήτοισ τύποισ ἔλαμπε· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 2:4)
  • οὕτωσ ἔπρεπέ μέν σοι ἡ κόρυσ, ἡ φοινικὶσ δὲ ἐπήνθει καὶ ἡ πέλτη ἐμάρμαιρεν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐπήλαυνεν εἰκοσάπηχύν τινα προβεβλημένοσ κοντόν, ὁ Θρᾷξ δὲ ἐπειδὴ τῇ πέλτῃ ἀπεκρούσατο τὴν προσβολὴν καὶ παρῆλθεν αὐτὸν ἡ ἀκωκή, ἐσ τὸ γόνυ ὀκλάσασ δέχεται τῇ σαρίσῃ τὴν ἐπέλασιν καὶ τιτρώσκει τὸν ἵππον ὑπὸ τὸ στέρνον ὑπὸ θυμοῦ καὶ σφοδρότητοσ διαπείραντα ἑαυτόν· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 8:3)
  • τὸ δ’ Ἑλληνικὸν καὶ βαρβαρικὸν μὴ χλαμύδι μηδὲ πέλτῃ μηδ’ ἀκινάκῃ μηδὲ κάνδυι διορίζειν, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν Ἑλληνικὸν ἀρετῇ τὸ δὲ βαρβαρικὸν κακίᾳ τεκμαίρεσθαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 6 7:1)
  • τὸ δ’ Ἑλληνικὸν καὶ βαρβαρικὸν μὴ χλαμύδι μηδὲ πέλτῃ ; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 6 2:3)

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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