Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πυκτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυκτικός πυκτική πυκτικόν

Structure: πυκτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. skilled in boxing, the art of boxing
  2. of or for boxers

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ οἰεί πυκτικῆσ πλέον μετέχειν τοὺσ πλουσίουσ ἐπιστήμῃ τε καὶ ἐμπειρίᾳ ἢ πολεμικῆσ; (Plato, Republic, book 4 54:1)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in boxing

Related

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

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