impale

From LSJ

Τὰς γὰρ ἡδονὰς ὅταν προδῶσιν ἄνδρες, οὐ τίθημ᾽ ἐγὼ ζῆν τοῦτον, ἀλλ᾽ ἔμψυχον ἡγοῦμαι νεκρόν → But when people lose their pleasures, I do not consider this life – rather, it is just a corpse with a soul

Sophocles, Antigone, 1165-7

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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verb transitive

P. ἀνασταυροῦν, V. σκόλοπι πηγνύναι or σκόλοψι πηγνύναι.

Translations

Bulgarian: набивам на кол; Danish: spidde; Dutch: spietsen; Finnish: seivästää; French: empaler; German: pfählen, erstechen; Greek: ανασκολοπίζω; Ancient Greek: ἀμφιγυιόω, ἀναπείρω, ἀναπήγνυμι, ἀνασκολοπίζω, ἀνασκινδαλεύω, ἀνασκινδυλεύω, ἀνασχινδυλεύω, ἀνασταυρίζω, ἀνασταυροῦν, ἀνασταυρόω, ἐμπείρω, ἐμπεριπείρω, σκόλοπι πηγνύναι, σκόλοψι πηγνύναι; Hungarian: karóba húz; Icelandic: stjaksetja, stinga á tein, setja á nál; Italian: impalare; Macedonian: набива, набодува; Polish: wbijać na pal, wbić na pal, nadziewać na pal, nadziać na pal, nabijać na pal, nabić na pal; Portuguese: empalar; Russian: сажать на кол, посадить на кол; Serbo-Croatian: nabiti na kolac; Spanish: empalar