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πολιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιά

Structure: πολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: polio/s

Sense

  1. grayness of hair

Declension

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.

Examples

  • ὡσ ὡραῖον πολιαῖσ κρίσισ καὶ πρεσβυτέροισ ἐπιγνῶναι βουλήν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 25:4)
  • τοῦτο μὲν εἰδὼσ ἅπαθε Μάγνησ ἅμα ταῖσ πολιαῖσ κατιούσαισ, ὃσ πλεῖστα χορῶν τῶν ἀντιπάλων νίκησ ἔστησε τροπαῖα· (Aristotle, Parabasis, parabasis7)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἔστω καὶ δοκείτω διατρεπτικὸσ εἶναι λόγοσ πρὸσ τὸν ἀρχόμενον ἐν πολιαῖσ νεανιεύεσθαι λεγόμενοσ καὶ καθαπτόμενοσ ἐκ μακρᾶσ οἰκουρίασ; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 91)
  • ὡρ́α τοίνυν καὶ βασιλεῖ παραινεῖν πρεσβύτῃ γεγενημένῳ τὸ μὲν διάδημα καταθέσθαι καὶ τὴν πορφύραν, ἱμάτιον δ’ ἀναλαβόντα καὶ καμπύλην ἐν ἀγρῷ διατρίβειν, μὴ δοκῇ περίεργα καὶ ἀώρα πράττειν ἐν πολιαῖσ βασιλεύων. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 11 3:2)
  • ἀκμαζούσησ γὰρ ἤδη συνέσεώσ ἐστι καὶ πολιαῖσ κατηρτυμένησ ἡλικίασ οἰκειοτέρα, πολλῇ μὲν ἱστορίᾳ λόγων τε καὶ ἔργων, πολλῇ δὲ πείρᾳ καὶ συμφορᾷ παθῶν οἰκείων τε καὶ ἀλλοτρίων συναυξομένη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 15)

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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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