καταπάλτης
μὴ τὴν ὄψιν καλλωπίζου, ἀλλ' ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ἴσθι καλός → Don't beautify your face, but be beautiful in your habits (Thales, in Diog. Laertius 1.37)
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ, (πάλλω) A engine of war for hurling bolts, catapult, IG22.120.37, 554.15, 12(5).647.36 (Ceos):—freq. written καταπέλτης in literary texts, Mnesim.7.10, Timocl.12.5, Onos.42.3, etc.; καταπάλτην ἀφιέναι Arist.Ath.42.3, EN1111a11, cf. Aud.800b13, Ath. Mech.8.7, Ael.VH6.12; used as an instrument of torture, D.S.20.71, Charito 3.4, LXX 4 Ma.8.13. 2 bolt, shot, (καταπέλτης) Hp.Epid.5.95, 7.121, (καταπάλτης) Hsch.:—hence καταπαλτικός, καταπαλτική, καταπαλτικόν (in literary texts -πελτ-), of catapults or belonging to catapults, βέλη IG22.1487.102; ὄργανα καὶ βέλη Plb.11.11.3, cf. Str.17.3.15, Bito62.4; τὰ καταπαλτικά = καταπάλται, Plb.9.41.5; τὸ καταπαλτικόν artillery, D.S.14.42.
French (Bailly abrégé)
mieux que καταπέλτης;
ου (ὁ) :
catapulte, machine à lancer des traits.
Étymologie: καταπάλλω.
Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)
καταπάλτης -ου, ὁ, ook καταπέλτης καταπάλλομαι katapult. worp. Hp.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
καταπέλτης: v.l. καταπάλτης, ου ὁ (лат. catapulta) катапельт или катапульта
1) стрелометательная машина Arst., Polyb., Plut.;
2) орудие пытки Diod.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
καταπάλτης: -ου, ὁ, = καταπέλτης, Ἀριστ, Ἀθην. Πολιτ. 64. 4 (ἔκδ. Blass), Ἡσύχ., πρβλ. Κόντον ἐν Ἀθηνᾶς Τόμ. Δ΄, σ. 111.
Greek Monolingual
καταπάλτης, ὁ (Α)
επιγρ. βλ. καταπέλτης.
Translations
catapult
Albanian: hobe, plengë,; Arabic: مَنْجَنِيق, مِرْجَام; Armenian: բաբան; Azerbaijani: katapult; Belarusian: катапульта; Bulgarian: катапулт; Catalan: catapulta; Chinese Mandarin: 彈射器, 弹射器, 投石機, 投石机; Corsican: catapulta; Czech: katapult; Danish: katapult; Dutch: katapult; Esperanto: katapulto; Estonian: heitemasin, katapult; Finnish: katapultti, heittokone; French: catapulte; Galician: catapulta; Georgian: კატაპულტა, ფილაკვანი; Old Georgian: ფილაკვანი; German: Katapult; Greek: καταπέλτης; Ancient Greek: καταπάλτης; Hebrew: קָטָפּוּלְטָה; Hindi: गुलेल, अवक्षेपक; Hungarian: hajítógép, katapult; Italian: catapulta; Japanese: カタパルト, 投石機, 投石器; Kazakh: катапульта; Korean: 캐터펄트, 투석기(投石器); Kyrgyz: катапульта; Latin: catapulta; Latvian: katapulta; Lithuanian: katapulta; Macedonian: катапулт; Malay: tarpil; Norwegian Bokmål: katapult; Nynorsk: katapult; Persian: منجنیق, منجنیک; Polish: katapulta; Portuguese: catapulta; Romanian: catapultă; Russian: катапульта; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: ката̀пулт; Roman: katàpult; Slovak: katapult; Slovene: katapult; Spanish: catapulta; Swedish: katapult; Tagalog: palintong; Tajik: манҷаниқ, катапулта; Thai: แคทะพัลต์; Turkish: mancınık; Ukrainian: катапульта; Urdu: مِنجَنِیق; Uzbek: manjaniq; Vietnamese: máy bắn đá