Ancient Greek

Ἀθηναῖος Ὁπλίτης μεθ' ὅπλῳ.

Noun

ὁπλῑ́της • ‎(hoplī́tēs) m ‎(genitive ὁπλῑ́του); first declension

1. one who is armed, heavily armored
   • Pindar I.I.32
2. a heavily armored foot soldier, man-at-arms, who carried a pike (δόρυ ‎(dóru)) and a large shield (ὅπλον ‎(hóplon))
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.30

Declension

See also

• πελτάστης ‎(peltástēs, “light-armed foot soldier”)

Descendants

• Greek: οπλίτης m ‎(oplítis, “soldier”)

Antonyms

• ψῑλός ‎(psīlós)

References

• ὁπλίτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὁπλίτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • heavy-armed idem, page 393.
  • hoplite idem, page 406.
  • soldier idem, page 792.
  • warrior idem, page 963.