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

  • ἐνετράπην γὰρ αἰτῆσαι τὸν βασιλέα πεζούσ τε καὶ ἱππεῖσ καὶ προπομπὴν ἕνεκεν ἀσφαλείασ τῆσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐναντιουμένουσ ἡμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 8:51)
  • καὶ ἔλαβε πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ, τοὺσ πεζοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ καὶ τὰ ἅρματα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν εἰσ τὴν ὀρεινήν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 2:22)
  • αὐτοὺσ δὲ τοὺσ πεζοὺσ ἐπὶ τεσσάρων τεταγμένουσ ἰέναι. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 8:2)
  • ἔκ Τραπεζοῦντοσ δὲ ὁρμηθέντεσ τῇ μὲν πρώτῃ ἐσ Ὕσσου λιμένα κατήραμεν καὶ τοὺσ πεζοὺσ τοὺσ ταύτῃ ἐγυμνάσαμεν· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 3 1:1)
  • παρακειμένων δὲ τῶν κρεῶν τοῦ βοὸσ προσιόντεσ οἱ οἰκεῖοι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὁ βουλόμενοσ μοῖραν ἕκαστοσ λαβὼν ἐπιβὰσ τῇ βύρσῃ τὸν δεξιὸν πόδα ὑπισχνεῖται κατὰ δύναμιν, ὁ μὲν πέντε ἱππέασ παρέξειν ἀσίτουσ καὶ ἀμίσθουσ, ὁ δὲ δέκα, ὁ δὲ πλείουσ, ὁ δὲ ὁπλίτασ ἢ ^ πεζοὺσ ὁπόσουσ ἂν δύνηται, ὁ δὲ μόνον ἑαυτόν, ὁ πενέστατοσ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 47:4)

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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