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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

  • εἶθ̓ οὕτωσ ἐπιφανῆναι ἄνδρα πολιᾷ καὶ δόξῃ διαφέροντα, θαυμαστὴν δέ τινα καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτην εἶναι τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν ὑπεροχήν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:13)
  • ἤγετο γὰρ γεραιῶν πλῆθοσ πολιᾷ πεπυκασμένων, τὴν ἐκ τοῦ γήρωσ νωθρότητα ποδῶν ἐπίκυφον ἀνατροπῆσ ὁρμῇ βιαίασ ἁπάσησ αἰδοῦσ ἄνευ πρὸσ ὀξεῖαν καταχρωμένων πορείαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:5)
  • πολιὰ δέ ἐστι φρόνησισ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ ἡλικία γήρωσ βίοσ ἀκηλίδωτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:9)
  • ἔτι ’ γὰρ τοῦτό μοι τὸ λοιπὸν ἦν, ἐν βαθεῖ τούτῳ τῷ πώγωνι καὶ πολιᾷ τῇ κόμῃ καθῆσθαι μέσον ἐν τοῖσ γυναίοισ καὶ τοῖσ μεμηνόσιν ἐκείνοισ θεαταῖσ, κροτοῦντά τε προσέτι καὶ ἐπαίνουσ ἀπρεπεστάτουσ ἐπιβοῶντα ὀλέθρῳ τινὶ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐσ οὐδὲν δέον κατακλωμένῳ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 5:4)
  • εἶτ’ ἐννόησον ἄνδρα ἐν βαθεῖ πώγωνι καὶ πολιᾷ τῇ κόμῃ ἐξεταζόμενον εἲ τι οἶδεν ὠφέλιμον, καὶ τοῖσ μὲν δοκοῦντα εἰδέναι, τοῖσ δὲ μή. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 12:2)

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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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