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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24

Greek Monolingual

ο / πτερνιστήρ, -ῆρος, ΝΜ, και πτερνιστήρα και φτερνιστήρα, ἡ, Μ
μεταλλικό αντικείμενο που προσαρμόζεται στη φτέρνα τών υποδημάτων τών ιππέων και το οποίο έχει αιχμή ή τροχίσκο στο εξωτερικό του άκρο, με τα οποία κεντά ο αναβάτης το υποζύγιο για να τρέξει, κν. σπιρούνι.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < πτερνίζω + επίθημα -τηρ(ας), πρβλ. σωφρονισ-τήρ].

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πτερνιστήρ: ῆρος, ὁ, τὸ σιδήριον τὸ προσαρμοζόμενον εἰς τὴν πτέρναν τῶν ὑποδημάτων, κυρίως τῶν ἱππέων ὅπως δι’ αὐτῶν κεντῶσι τοὺς ἵππους, Λέοντ. Τακτ. 6, 4,

Translations

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Albanian: mamuz; Arabic: مِهْمَاز‎; Armenian: խթան; Assamese: আল; Azerbaijani: mahmız; Belarusian: шпора, астрога; Bulgarian: шпора; Catalan: esperó; Chinese Mandarin: 馬刺, 马刺; Czech: ostruha; Danish: spore; Dutch: spoor; Esperanto: sprono; Estonian: kannus; Finnish: kannus; French: éperon; Galician: espora; German: Sporn; Greek: σπιρούνι, σπηρούνι, σπερούνι, πτερνιστήρας, φτερνιστήρας, φτερνιστήρι, πτερνιστήρ; Ancient Greek: κέντρον, μύωψ, πλῆκτρον, πλᾶκτρον; Hebrew: דורבן / דָּרְבָּן‎; Hindi: महमेज़; Hungarian: sarkantyú; Irish: spor, brod; Italian: sperone; Japanese: 拍車; Kazakh: өкшелік; Khmer: ក្រចាប់; Korean: 박차; Kyrgyz: шпора; Latin: calcar; Macedonian: мамуза; Malay: pacu; Maori: kipa; Middle English: spore; Mongolian: түлхэц; Norwegian Bokmål: spore; Nynorsk: spore; Occitan: esperon; Pashto: مهميز‎; Persian: مهمیز‎, اسب انگیز‎; Polish: ostroga; Portuguese: espora; Romanian: pinten; Russian: шпора; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: мамуза, оструга; Roman: mamuza, ostruga; Slovak: ostroha; Slovene: ostroga; Spanish: espuela; Swedish: sporre; Tagalog: tari, espuwelas; Tajik: маҳмез; Tibetan: རྟིང་ལྕགས; Turkish: mahmuz; Ukrainian: острога, шпора; Urdu: مہمیز‎; Uzbek: shpora, mahmez; Welsh: sbardun, ysbardun