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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πηδάλιον πηδαλίω πηδάλια
Genitive πηδαλίου πηδαλίοιν πηδαλίων
Dative πηδαλίῳ πηδαλίοιν πηδαλίοις
Accusative πηδάλιον πηδαλίω πηδάλια
Vocative πηδάλιον πηδαλίω πηδάλια

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

  • αἶψά κε πηδάλιον μὲν ὑπὲρ καπνοῦ καταθεῖο, ἔργα βοῶν δ’ ἀπόλοιτο καὶ ἡμιόνων ταλαεργῶν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 7:3)
  • πηδάλιον δ’ ἐυεργὲσ ὑπὲρ καπνοῦ κρεμάσασθαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 69:5)
  • ἐπίτηδεσ εἶχον πηδάλιον, ᾧ χρήσομαι· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, iambics14)
  • ὥστε λύε τὰ ἀπόγεια, τὴν ἀποβάθραν ἀνελώμεθα, τὸ ἀγκύριον ἀνεσπάσθω, πέτασον τὸ ἱστίον, εὔθυνε, ὦ πορθμεῦ, τὸ πηδάλιον· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 21:3)
  • καὶ πηδάλιον τότε ναυκλήρῳ φράζει κρεμάσαντι καθεύδειν, εἶτα δ’ Ὀρέστῃ χλαῖναν ὑφαίνειν, ἵνα μὴ ῥιγῶν ἀποδύῃ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis4)

Synonyms

  1. a rudder or an oar used for steering

Related

Similar forms

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

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