Hellas Alive Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιά

Structure: πολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: polio/s

First 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.

κόσμοσ νεανίαισ σοφία, δόξα δὲ πρεσβυτέρων πολιαί. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 20:23)
κατέφαγον ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸσ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνω. καὶ πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸσ οὐκ ἔγνω. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 7:9)
ἐκεῖνό σοι μόνον σοφόν, αἱ πολιαὶ καὶ τὸ μηκέτι μελαίνεσθαι, ὡσ προκάλυμμα εἰε͂ν τῆσ βδελυρίασ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 28:6)
ἀλλ’ ὅταν οἰκήσωσι λύκοι πολιαί τε κορῶναι ἐν ταὐτῷ τὸ μεταξὺ Κορίνθου καὶ Σικυῶνοσ, ‐ τί οὖν προσήκει δῆτ’ ἐμοὶ Κορινθίων; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:1)
ἔμαθον δ’ εὐρυπόροι‐ ο θαλάσσασ πολιαι‐ νομένασ πνεύματι λάβρῳ ἐσορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσοσ, πίσυνοι λεπτοδόμοισ πεί‐ σμασι λα‐ οπόροισ τε μαχαναῖσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 31)

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

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