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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

  • εὑρὼν δὲ τὴν πόλιν οὐχ, ὡσ ᾤοντο Ῥωμαῖοι, κεκακωμένην καὶ ταπεινὰ πράττουσαν, ἀλλὰ πολλῇ μὲν εὐανδροῦσαν ἡλικίᾳ, μεγάλων δὲ πλούτων γέμουσαν, ὅπλων δὲ παντοδαπῶν καὶ παρασκευῆσ πολεμιστηρίου μεστὴν καὶ μικρὸν οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τούτοισ φρονοῦσαν, οὐ τὰ Νομάδων ᾤετο καὶ Μασσανάσσου πράγματα Ῥωμαίουσ ὡρ́αν ἔχειν τίθεσθαι καὶ διαιτᾶν, ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ καταλήψονται πόλιν ἄνωθεν ἐχθρὰν καὶ βαρύθυμον ηὐξημένην ἀπίστωσ, πάλιν ἐν τοῖσ ἴσοισ κινδύνοισ ἔσεσθαι. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 26 2:1)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίασ οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ ἂν εἰή, εἰ τὰ ἄνω πάνυ καλὰ ἔχοι μὴ ὑποκειμένων οἱών δεῖ θεμελίων, οὕτω καὶ ἵππου πολεμιστηρίου οὐδὲν ἂν ὄφελοσ εἰή, οὐδ’ εἰ τἆλλα πάντα ἀγαθὰ ἔχοι, κακόπουσ δ’ εἰή· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 4:2)

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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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