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πηδάλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηδάλιον πηδάλιου

Structure: πηδαλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: phdo/s

Sense

  1. a rudder or an oar used for steering, a handle or tiller

Declension

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

  • Πότερον ὅταν χειμὼν ἰσχυρὸσ ᾖ καὶ μὴ κατισχύῃ τοῖν πηδαλίοιν ἑκατέρου διὰ γῆρασ ἢ διὰ βίαν τῆσ θαλάττησ, οὐδὲ τότε φιλεῖ κυβερνήτην ἄλλον οὐδ̓ εὔχεται φαίνεσθαι τὸν διαδεξόμενον, οὐδ̓ ὅταν κατακοιμηθῆναι δέηται, πολλὰσ ἐφεξῆσ ἀγρυπνῶν νύκτασ καὶ ἡμέρασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τότε ὁμοίωσ μισεῖ καὶ ζημίαν αὑτοῦ νενόμικεν, εἰ κυβερνήτησ ἐν τῇ νηὶ ἕτερόσ ἐστιν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 13:4)

Synonyms

  1. a rudder or an oar used for steering

Related

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

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