ὁπλίτης

• ὁπλῑ́τᾱς (hoplī́tās) — Doric, Arcadocypriot

From ὅπλον (hóplon, “large shield”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

ὁπλῑ́της • (hoplī́tēs) m (genitive ὁπλῑ́του); first declension (Attic, Ionic)

1. one who is armed, heavily armored
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, 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))
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.30

• ψῑλός (psīlós)

• ὁπλῑτᾰγωγός (hoplītagōgós)

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

• πελταστής (peltastḗs, “light-armed foot soldier”)

• “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 964.