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τριηραρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριηραρχία

Structure: τριηραρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from trihrarxe/w

Sense

  1. the command of a trireme
  2. the fitting out of a trireme for the public service, a trierarchy

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

  • ἔτι δὲ κἂν ὦσιν ἱππεῖσ ἢ ψιλοὶ ἢ τοξόται ἢ ναυτικόν, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτων ἑκάστων ἐνίοτε καθίσταται ἀρχή, αἳ καλοῦνται ναυαρχίαι καὶ ἱππαρχίαι καὶ ταξιαρχίαι, καὶ κατὰ μέροσ δὲ αἱ ὑπὸ ταύτασ τριηραρχίαι καὶ λοχαγίαι καὶ φυλαρχίαι καὶ ὅσα τούτων μόρια. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 130:1)

Synonyms

  1. the command of a trireme

  2. the fitting out of a trireme for the public service

Related

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

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