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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

  • καίτοι τό γε τῆσ ἀνθρωποφαγίασ καὶ Σκυθικὸν εἶναι λέγεται, καὶ ἐν ἀνάγκαισ πολιορκητικαῖσ καὶ Κελτοὶ καὶ Ἴβηρεσ καὶ ἄλλοι πλείουσ ποιῆσαι τοῦτο λέγονται. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 5 8:5)

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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