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πολεμιστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολεμιστήριος πολεμιστήριᾱ πολεμιστήριον

Structure: πολεμιστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a warrior, war-, the war-chariots

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

  • Ἀθηνᾶσ ναὸσ πεποίηται, ἡ θεὸσ λίθου λευκοῦ, τὸ σχῆμα οὐ πολεμιστήριον, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἂν γένοιτο εἰρήνην ἀγούσησ θεοῦ πολεμικῆσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 26:2)
  • φέρε δεῦρο παῖ θώρακα πολεμιστήριον. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:41)
  • ἀποδόμενοσ τὸν πολεμιστήριον ἵππον καταβέβηκεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων, καὶ ἀντ’ ἐκείνου ὄχημ’ αὑτῷ τηλικοῦτοσ ὢν ἐώνηται, ἵνα μὴ πεζῇ πορεύηται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 30:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πολεμιστήριον ἵππον ὑπεθέμεθα ὠνεῖσθαι, ληπτέον πεῖραν ἁπάντων ὅσωνπερ καὶ ὁ πόλεμοσ πεῖραν λαμβάνει. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 8:1)
  • ὠφελείασ μέντοι οὐ πολλὰσ εὑρ͂ον, ὅτι μὴ ὅπλα καὶ ἵππουσ, καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο πολεμιστήριον χρῆμα ἦν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 33 5:2)

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

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