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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

  • οὕτω δὲ ὁμιλήσαντεσ ἀλλήλοισ καὶ πάντα κοινωσάμενοι καὶ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ θέμενοι τοῦ συμφέροντοσ, ἐξείλοντο μὲν αὐτὰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ ἐχομένασ ἤδη καὶ οἰκουμένασ ὑπὸ Περσῶν, ἐρρύσαντο δὲ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ὑποβρύχιον φερομένην καὶ μικροῦ δέουσαν ἤδη πᾶσαν οἴχεσθαι, γῆν δὲ καὶ θάλατταν ἐκόσμησαν πεζομαχίαισ καὶ ναυμαχίαισ, ὅσον εὔχοντο νικῶντεσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 12:4)

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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