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

  • τὴν γῆν, τὰ μὲν ὑποβρύχια, φωλεύοντα ἐν μυχῷ τῆσ ψάμμου, τὰ δὲ ἄνω ἐπιπολάζοντα, φύσαλοι καὶ ἀσπίδεσ καὶ ἔχιδναι καὶ κεράσται καὶ βουπρήστεισ καὶ ἀκοντίαι καὶ ἀμφίσβαιναι καὶ δράκοντεσ καὶ σκορπίων γένοσ διττόν, τὸ μὲν ἕτερον ἐπίγειόν τε καὶ πεζόν, ὑπέρμεγα καὶ πολυσφόνδυλον, θάτερον δὲ ἐναέριον καὶ πτηνόν, ὑμενόπτερον δὲ οἱᾶ ταῖσ ἀκρίσι καὶ τέττιξι καὶ νυκτερίσι τὰ πτερά. (Lucian, Dipsades 5:1)
  • τούτῳ γὰρ Θουκυδίδησ τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἐπιβαλὼν καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὧν πρότερον ἐμνήσθην, καὶ συνιδών, ἃσ ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν ἔσχεν ἀρετάσ, ἴδιόν τι γένοσ χαρακτῆροσ, οὔτε πεζὸν αὐτοτελῶσ οὔτ’ ἔμμετρον ἀπηρτισμένωσ, κοινὸν δέ τι καὶ μικτὸν ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐργασάμενοσ εἰσ τὴν ἱστορικὴν πραγματείαν ἐσπούδασεν εἰσαγαγεῖν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 1:2)
  • Ἀλλ̓ ἐγὼ μέν φημι δεῖν ὑμᾶσ τὸ πεζὸν ἀπιέναι τὴν ἐπὶ Κτησιφῶντοσ, ἡμᾶσ δὲ τὸ ἱππικὸν αὐτοῦ μένειν τὴν Βαβυλῶνα διαφυλάξοντασ. (Lucian, 60:1)
  • ἔνεστι μὲν οὖν ἐν τῇ κατασκευῇ τῶν ὀνομάτων αὐτῷ τὸ τραγικὸν τὸ κωμικὸν τὸ σοβαρὸν τὸ πεζόν, ἀσάφεια κοινότησ, ὄγκοσ καὶ δίαρμα, σπερμολογία καὶ φλυαρία ναυτιώδησ. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 8:2)
  • τοσαύτασ διαφορὰσ ἔχουσα καὶ ἀνομοιότητασ ἡ λέξισ οὐδὲ τὸ πρέπον ἑκάστῃ καὶ οἰκεῖον ἀποδίδωσιν οἱο͂ν λέγω βασιλεῖ τὸν ὄγκον ῥήτορι τὴν δεινότητα γυναικὶ τὸ ἁπλοῦν ἰδιώτῃ τὸ πεζὸν ἀγοραίῳ τὸ φορτικόν· (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 10:1)

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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