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Palaeste or
Palaiste was a town in the
Ceraunian Mountains, on the
Chaonian coast,
between the
southern Adriatic and the
Ionian Sea. The town was placed...
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theorized to be the
portmanteau of the Gr**** word for the
Philistines and
palaistês,
which means "wrestler/rival/adversary". This
aligns with the Gr**** practice...
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centimeters (1 ft 8 in). The
Ancient Gr**** palm (Ancient Gr****: παλαιστή,
palaistḗ, δῶρον, dō̂ron, or δακτυλοδόχμη, daktylodókhmē) made up ¼ of the Gr****...
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finger kondylos κόνδυλος 2
daktyloi 38.5 mm (1.52 in)
knuckle palaistē or dōron παλαιστή, δῶρον 4
daktyloi 77.1 mm (3.04 in) palm
dichas or hēmipodion...
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Ancient Gr****
cubit Cabda -
Arabic palm Chetvert/Piad -
Russian span/palm
Palaistē/dōron -
Ancient Gr**** palm Palm -
breadth of four
fingers Palmus - Ancient...
- name
Palystes is
derived from
either the
Latin palaestes or the Gr****
palaistes,
meaning "wrestler". The
genus was
first described by
Ludwig Carl Christian...
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forms of the Gr**** and
Roman units of the finger, kondylos, anticheir,
palaiste, dichas, spithame, pechys, pace, fathom,
schoenus (field measurement),...
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Aramaic loanword, its Gr**** form
showed clear derivation from παλαιστής,
palaistês, the Gr**** noun
meaning "wrestler/rival/adversary".
David Jacobson noted...
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called monas (μονάς), "unit", as the
smallest unit of length. Palm
palaistḗ (παλαιστή)
anticheir (αντιχειρ) 1⁄4 0.0787 Half-pous Half-foot hēmipódion...
- from Hebrew: פְּלִשְׁתִּים [pəliːʃˈtiːm]; or
perhaps Gr**** παλαιστής (
palaistēs, "wrestler"), in
reference to
Israel Hebrew Israeli Hebrew: פלשתינה (Palestina)...
