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πῶλος

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῶλος πώλου

Structure: πωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. foal, young horse, whether colt or filly
  2. a young animal, especially domestic
  3. (poetic) a young girl, maiden

Declension

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

  • σύ μοι Ζεὺσ ὁ φαναῖοσ ἥκεισ διφρεύων βαλιαῖσι πώλοισ. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ὦ πάντεσ ἀστοὶ τῆσδε βαρβάρου χθονόσ, οὐκ εἰᾶ πώλοισ ἐμβαλόντεσ ἡνίασ παράκτιοι δραμεῖσθε κἀκβολὰσ νεὼσ Ἑλληνίδοσ δέξεσθε, σὺν δὲ τῇ θεῷ σπεύδοντεσ ἄνδρασ δυσσεβεῖσ θηράσετε, οἳ δ’ ὠκυπομποὺσ ἕλξετ’ ἐσ πόντον πλάτασ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:18)
  • ὦ λιπαροζώνου θύγατερ Αἐλίου Σελαναία, χρυσεόκυκλον φέγγοσ, ὡσ ἀτρεμαῖα κέντρα καὶ σώφρονα πώλοισ μεταφέρων ἰθύνει. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:18)
  • πώλοισ δὲ προσδήσασ καὶ εἰσ δύο μέρη διελὼν τὸν Πυραίχμην, ἄταφον ἔρριψεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 7 1:1)
  • οἰνωμένοισ δ’ ἐπέθετο, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα δύο πώλοισ συζεύξασ διεσπάραξεν· (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 7 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a young animal

  2. a young girl

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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