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πολεμικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολεμικός πολεμική πολεμικόν

Structure: πολεμικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/lemos

Sense

  1. of or for war, most fit for service
  2. the art of war, war, warlike exercises
  3. the signal for battle
  4. the military class
  5. skilled in war, warlike
  6. like an enemy, stirring up hostility, hostile

Examples

  • καὶ ὅτε μὲν ἡγοῦ τὴν βουλὴν ἀποφανεῖν τοὺσ ἔχοντασ τὸ χρυσίον, πολεμικὸσ ὢν καὶ ταράττων τὴν πόλιν, ἵνα τὴν ζήτησιν ἐκκρούοισ· (Hyperides, Speeches, 7:6)
  • φιλοπόλεμοσ μὲν οὖν ὁ τῆσ ἀσφαλείασ τὴν πλεονεξίαν προτιμῶν, πολεμικὸσ δὲ ὁ τῷ πολέμῳ κτώμενοσ τὴν ἀσφάλειαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Sertorius and Eumenes, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ἅτε γὰρ ὢν πολεμικὸσ καὶ χεῖρον οὐδὲν πρὸσ στρατείασ ἠσκημένοσ ἢ δίκασ, ἔτι δὲ τὴν πολιτείαν καὶ τὸ βῆμα φρίττων, ἀντέχειν δὲ καλοῦντι τῷ δήμῳ καὶ τοῖσ φίλοισ οὐ δυνάμενοσ, παντάπασι τὴν ἀποδημίαν ἐκείνην ἠγάπησε. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 1 4:3)
  • καὶ ὁ ἀνδρειότατοσ δέ, προσέτι δὲ καὶ πολεμικὸσ ποιητὴσ Ἀλκαῖοσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 1:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ Λάμαχοσ ἦν μὲν πολεμικὸσ καὶ ἀνδρώδησ, ἀξίωμα δ’ οὐ προσῆν οὐδ’ ὄγκοσ αὐτῷ διὰ πενίαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or for war

  2. the art of war

  3. the signal for battle

  4. the military class

  5. skilled in war

  6. like an enemy

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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