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πεζικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεζικός πεζική πεζικόν

Structure: πεζικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pezo/s

Sense

  1. on foot, of or for a foot-soldier, the foot, the infantry, the evolutions of infantry
  2. a land force

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ πεζικαί τε καὶ ἱππικαὶ τάξεισ καὶ ὁπλίσεισ πολυειδεῖσ τε καὶ πολύτροποί εἰσιν. (Arrian, chapter 3 1:1)
  • "ἐπὶ δὲ πᾶσιν ἐπόμπευσαν αἱ δυνάμεισ αἱ ἱππικοὶ καὶ πεζικαί, πᾶσαι καθωπλισμέναι θαυμασίωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:21)
  • "τῆσ Ἰταλίασ ἐγὼ κρούσω τῷ ποδὶ τὴν γῆν, ἀναδύσονται καὶ πεζικαὶ καὶ ἱππικαὶ δυνάμεισ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 57 5:2)
  • αἱ δὲ πεζικαὶ δυνάμεισ ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ ταῦτα καιροῖσ οὐδὲν ἔπραξαν ἄξιον μνήμησ, ἀλλὰ περὶ μικρὰσ καὶ τὰσ τυχούσασ πράξεισ κατέτριψαν τοὺσ χρόνουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 25 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a land force

Related

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

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