Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πεζός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεζός πεζή πεζόν

Structure: πεζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pou/s

Sense

  1. on foot, fighters on foot, on land, going by land, foot-soldiery, infantry
  2. a land-force or army, by land
  3. land, beasts
  4. not rising above the ground, prosaic
  5. on foot
  6. by land

Declension

First/Second 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

  • εὐλογῆσαι βουλόμεσθα τοὺσ πατέρασ ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἄνδρεσ ἦσαν τῆσδε τῆσ γῆσ ἄξιοι καὶ τοῦ πέπλου, οἵτινεσ πεζαῖσ μάχαισιν ἔν τε ναυφάρκτῳ στρατῷ πανταχοῦ νικῶντεσ ἀεὶ τήνδ’ ἐκόσμησαν πόλιν· (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme1)
  • στρατεύσασ δὲ δυνάμεσιν ἁδραῖσ πεζαῖσ τε καὶ ναυτικαῖσ ἐπὶ Κύπρον καὶ Φοινίκην Σιδῶνα μὲν κατὰ κράτοσ εἷλε, τὰσ δ’ ἄλλασ τὰσ ἐν τῇ Φοινίκῃ πόλεισ καταπληξάμενοσ προσηγάγετο· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 68 1:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ πᾶσι μνῆμα Ἀθηναίοισ ὁπόσοισ ἀποθανεῖν συνέπεσεν ἔν τε ναυμαχίαισ καὶ ἐν μάχαισ πεζαῖσ πλὴν ὅσοι Μαραθῶνι αὐτῶν ἠγωνίσαντο· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 6:1)
  • ταῖσ δὲ πεζαῖσ δυνάμεσι παρεμέμικτο καὶ ἱππεία, δεδιδαγμένων ἵππων ὀρειβατεῖν καὶ κατοκλάζεσθαι ῥᾳδίωσ ἀπὸ προστάγματοσ, ὅτε τούτου δέοι. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 30:2)

Synonyms

  1. a land-force or army

  2. land

  3. on foot

  4. by land

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

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