polyspaston

== English == === Noun === polyspaston (plural polyspastons) (historical) A hoisting-tackle with many pulleys. == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πολύσπαστον (polúspaston, “compound pulley”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔ.lysˈpas.tɔn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [po.lisˈpas.ton] === Noun === polyspaston n (genitive polyspastī); second declension A hoisting-tackle with many pulleys. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type). ==== Related terms ==== pentaspaston ==== Descendants ==== English: polyspast French: polyspaste Spanish: polispasto ==== References ==== “polyspaston”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “polyspaston”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Liddell & Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon