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ῥαβδομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαβδομαχία

Structure: ῥαβδομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. a fighting with a staff or foil

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

  • φαίνεται δὲ καὶ καθόλου πρὸσ τὸ τῶν ἀθλητῶν γένοσ ἀλλοτρίωσ ἔχων πλείστουσ γέ τοι θεὶσ ἀγῶνασ οὐ μόνον τραγῳδῶν καὶ αὐλητῶν καὶ κιθαρῳδῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ῥαψῳδῶν, θήρασ τε παντοδαπῆσ καὶ ῥαβδομαχίασ, οὔτε πυγμῆσ οὔτε παγκρατίου μετά τινοσ σπουδῆσ ἔθηκεν ἆθλον. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 4 6:1)

Similar forms

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

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