πωλικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῶλος (pôlos, “foal, young horse”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós).

Adjective

πωλικός • (pōlikós) m or f (neuter πωλικόν); second declension

1. Of or pertaining to foals.
2. (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!

Inflection

First and second declension of πωλικός; πωλική; πωλικόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
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 pōlikắ
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 pōlikắ
Vocative		πωλικέ pōliké	πωλική pōlikḗ	πωλικόν pōlikón		πωλικώ pōlikṓ	πωλικᾱ́ pōlikā́	πωλικώ pōlikṓ		πωλικοί pōlikoí	πωλικαί pōlikaí	πωλικᾰ́ pōlikắ
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “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.
  • colt idem, page 144.
  • foal idem, page 331.
  • horse idem, page 406.