πόλεμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πτόλεμος (ptólemos) (Epic)

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.le.mos/ → /ˈpo.le.mos/ → /ˈpo.le.mos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.le.mos/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lɛ.mos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.le.mos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.le.mos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.le.mos/

Noun

πόλεμος • (pólemos) m (genitive πολέμου); second declension

1. war, battle

Inflection

Second declension of πόλεμος, πολέμου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πόλεμος	τὼ πολέμω	οἱ πόλεμοι
Genitive	τοῦ πολέμου	τοῖν πολέμοιν	τῶν πολέμων
Dative	τῷ πολέμῳ	τοῖν πολέμοιν	τοῖς πολέμοις
Accusative	τὸν πόλεμον	τὼ πολέμω	τοὺς πολέμους
Vocative	πόλεμε	πολέμω	πόλεμοι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Descendants

• English: polemic

• Russian: поле́мика f (polémika)
• Spanish: polémica, polémico

References

• πόλεμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόλεμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόλεμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πόλεμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πόλεμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πόλεμος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πόλεμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4171”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • circumstance idem, page 133.
  • hostility idem, page 407.
  • surrounding idem, page 845.
  • sword idem, page 849.
  • war idem, page 962.
  • warfare idem, page 964.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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Greek

Noun

πόλεμος • (pólemos) m (plural πόλεμοι)

1. war

   ακήρυχτος πόλεμος ― akírychtos pólemos ― undeclared war

Declension

declension of πόλεμος

	singular	plural
nominative	πόλεμος •	πόλεμοι •
genitive	πολέμου •	πολέμων •
accusative	πόλεμο •	πολέμους •
vocative	πόλεμε •	πόλεμοι •