πωλικός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom πῶλος (pôlos, “foal, young horse”) + -ῐκός (-ikós).
Adjective
editπωλικός • (pōlikós) m or f (neuter πωλικόν); second declension
- Of or pertaining to foals.
- (poetic) Of or pertaining to girls.
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, in Herbert Weir Smyth (ed. & tr.) Aeschylus, with an English translation, vol. 1, lines 452–456.
- ὄλοιθ’ ὃς πόλει μεγάλ’ ἐπεύχεται,
κεραυνοῦ δέ νιν βέλος ἐπισχέθοι,
πρὶν ἐμὸν ἐσθορεῖν δόμον, πωλικῶν
θ’ ἑδωλίων ὑπερκόπῳ
δορί ποτ’ ἐκλαπάξαι.- óloith’ hòs pólei megál’ epeúkhetai,
keraunoû dé nin bélos episkhéthoi,
prìn emòn esthoreîn dómon, pōlikôn
th’ hedōlíōn huperkópōi
dorí pot’ eklapáxai. - Death to him who exults so arrogantly over the city! May the thunderbolt stop him before he leaps into my home and plunders me from my maiden chambers with his outrageous spear!
- óloith’ hòs pólei megál’ epeúkhetai,
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, in Herbert Weir Smyth (ed. & tr.) Aeschylus, with an English translation, vol. 1, lines 452–456.
Inflection
editNumber | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | πωλικός pōlikós |
πωλική pōlikḗ |
πωλικόν pōlikón |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικᾱ́ pōlikā́ |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικοί pōlikoí |
πωλικαί pōlikaí |
πωλικᾰ́ pōliká | |||||
Genitive | πωλικοῦ pōlikoû |
πωλικῆς pōlikês |
πωλικοῦ pōlikoû |
πωλικοῖν pōlikoîn |
πωλικαῖν pōlikaîn |
πωλικοῖν pōlikoîn |
πωλικῶν pōlikôn |
πωλικῶν pōlikôn |
πωλικῶν pōlikôn | |||||
Dative | πωλικῷ pōlikôi |
πωλικῇ pōlikêi |
πωλικῷ pōlikôi |
πωλικοῖν pōlikoîn |
πωλικαῖν pōlikaîn |
πωλικοῖν pōlikoîn |
πωλικοῖς pōlikoîs |
πωλικαῖς pōlikaîs |
πωλικοῖς pōlikoîs | |||||
Accusative | πωλικόν pōlikón |
πωλικήν pōlikḗn |
πωλικόν pōlikón |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικᾱ́ pōlikā́ |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικούς pōlikoús |
πωλικᾱ́ς pōlikā́s |
πωλικᾰ́ pōliká | |||||
Vocative | πωλικέ pōliké |
πωλική pōlikḗ |
πωλικόν pōlikón |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικᾱ́ pōlikā́ |
πωλικώ pōlikṓ |
πωλικοί pōlikoí |
πωλικαί pōlikaí |
πωλικᾰ́ pōliká | |||||
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Further reading
edit- “πωλικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πωλικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πωλικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.