ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΑΙ, καταπελται
KATAPELTAI, katapeltai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-PEL-tai
Translations: catapults, siege engines, ballistas
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to catapults or other large siege engines used in ancient warfare. It is a compound word formed from 'κατά' (down, against) and 'πάλλω' (to hurl, to shake), literally meaning 'that which hurls down'. It is typically used in the plural to refer to multiple such machines.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 11:26
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 11:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΑΣ — catapult, a catapult
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΗ — catapult, a catapult, ballista, a ballista
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΗΝ — catapult, a catapult, battering ram, a battering ram
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΗΣ — catapult, a catapult, battering ram, a battering ram
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΙΚΟΙΣ — catapult-like, relating to catapults, of catapults
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΙΚΩΝ — of catapults, of engines, of siege engines, relating to catapults, relating to engines, relating to siege engines
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΛΤΩΝ — of catapults
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