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πεζομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεζομαχία

Structure: πεζομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from pezoma/xos

Sense

  1. a battle by land

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο ὅμωσ δυεῖν ναυμαχίαιν καὶ πεζομαχίαιν τὴν κρίσιν ἔσχεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 20 3:3)
  • Οὕτω μὲν δὴ Καίσαρί τε καὶ Ἀντωνίῳ διὰ τόλμησ ἐπισφαλοῦσ καὶ δυοῖν πεζομαχίαιν τηλικοῦτον ἔργον ἤνυστο, οἱο͂ν οὐχ ἕτερον ἐγένετο πρὸ ἐκείνου. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 17 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a battle by land

Related

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

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