ΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΗΣΑΣ, παλινδρομησας
PALINDROMĒSAS, palindromēsas
Sounds Like: pa-lin-dro-MAY-sas
Translations: having run back, having returned, having retreated
From the root: ΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, meaning 'having run back' or 'having retreated'. It describes an action completed in the past by the subject of the main verb, indicating a movement back to a previous position or a withdrawal. It is often used to describe military retreats or a general turning back.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Singular
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 26:246
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΟΥΝ — they were returning, they were going back, they were retreating
- ΠΑΛΙΝΔΡΟΜΕΩ — I run back, I return, I retreat
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