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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

  • οὐ γὰρ πηδαλίῳ πείθεται ὡσ ἄκατοσ, οὐδ’ ἄγκυραι ἔχουσιν ἀπορρήξασα δὲ δεσμὰ πολλάκισ ἐκ νυκτῶν ἄλλον ἔχει λιμένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9 1:2)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἄκατοσ οὐδὲ μικρὸν πείθεται ἑνὶ πηδαλίῳ, τὸ πεῖσμ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9 1:5)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δ’ ὁ Αἰτωλὸσ ἐν Κρίκᾳ, εἰ γνήσιον τὸ ποιημάτιον πηδαλίῳ ἄκρῳ ἔπι πομπίλοσ ἁνιοχεύων ἧστ’ ἀκάτω κατόπισθε θεῆσ ὕπο πόμπιμοσ ἰχθύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 18 2:1)
  • νώμα δικαίῳ πηδαλίῳ στρατόν· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 29:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ πηδαλίῳ πείθεραι ὡσ ἄκατοσ, ὀυδ’ ἄγκυραι ἔχουσιν, ἀπορρήξασα δὲ δεσμὰ πολλάκισ ἐκ νυκτῶν ἄλλον ἔχει λιμένα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389246)

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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