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πολιορκητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιορκητικός πολιορκητική πολιορκητικόν

Structure: πολιορκητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for besieging

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

  • ἀριστεῖα δ’ ἐκ τῶν ἀγώνων ἐξενήνεγμαι τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα μὲν στεφάνουσ πολιτικούσ, οἷσ ἀνέδησάν με οἱ σωθέντεσ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ, τρεῖσ δὲ πολιορκητικοὺσ πρῶτοσ ἐπιβὰσ πολεμίων τείχεσι καὶ κατασχών, ὀκτὼ δὲ τοὺσ ἐκ παρατάξεωσ, οἷσ ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτοκρατόρων ἐτιμήθην· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 37 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for besieging

Related

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

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