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

  • καὶ ἀπέστειλε πρὸσ αὐτὸν υἱὸσ Ἄδερ λέγων. τάδε ποιήσαι μοι ὁ Θεὸσ καὶ τάδε προσθείη, εἰ ἐκποιήσει ὁ χοῦσ Σαμαρείασ ταῖσ ἀλώπεξι παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τοῖσ πεζοῖσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:10)
  • καὶ ἐξῆλθεν αὐτὸσ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμισ αὐτοῦ εἰσ πορείαν τοῦ προελθεῖν βασιλέωσ Ναβουχοδονόσορ καὶ καλύψαι πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆσ γῆσ πρὸσ δυσμαῖσ ἐν ἅρμασι καὶ ἱππεῦσι καὶ πεζοῖσ ἐπιλέκτοισ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 2:19)
  • Τὸ δὲ ἱππικὸν σύμπαν κατὰ ἴλασ καὶ λόχουσ ὀκτὼ συντεταγμένον ἐφεστάτω τοῖσ πεζοῖσ, τὸ μὲν τοῖσ κέρασιν ἑκατέροισ προβολὴν ἔχον τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ πρὸ σφῶν καὶ τοὺσ τοξότασ, λόχοι δύο· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 27:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀναχωρήσαντοσ αὐτοῦ Καφύασ ἔλαβεν ὁ Ἄρατοσ, αὖθισ ἐξέπεμπον τὸν Κλεομένη, λαβόντοσ δὲ αὐτοῦ Μεθύδριον καὶ τὴν Ἀργολικὴν καταδραμόντοσ, ἐξεστράτευσαν οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ δισμυρίοισ πεζοῖσ καὶ χιλίοισ ἱππεῦσιν Ἀριστομάχου στρατηγοῦντοσ. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 4 4:1)
  • τοῦτο τὸ στοιχεῖον ἐν μὲν ποιητικῇ δαψιλέστερόν ἐστιν, ἐν δὲ λόγοισ πεζοῖσ σπανιώτερον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 613)

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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