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Γέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Γέτης Γέτου

Structure: Γετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one of the Getae
  2. in Late Antiquity usage, a poetic word for Visigoth

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • γέτασ ἀνήρ; (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 1:3)
  • καὶ ὅτε μὲν ἐσ τὴν Γετικὴν ἀποβλέψαιμι, πολεμοῦντασ ἂν ἑώρων τοὺσ Γέτασ· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 16:9)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ οὐ χεῖρον καὶ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐκείνουσ εἰρῆσθαι, ἵν̓, εἴ ποτε πόλεμοσ ἄλλοσ συσταίη, ἢ Κελτοῖσ πρὸσ Γέτασ ἢ Ἰνδοῖσ πρὸσ Βακτρίουσ ‐ οὐ γὰρ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ γε τολμήσειεν ἄν τισ, ἁπάντων ἤδη κεχειρωμένων ‐ ἔχωσιν ἄμεινον συντιθέναι τὸν κανόνα τοῦτον προσάγοντεσ, ἤνπερ γε δόξῃ αὐτοῖσ ὀρθὸσ εἶναι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 5 1:1)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ Γέτασ τοὺσ ἀπαθανατίζοντασ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 3 2:2)
  • Ἔνθα δὴ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἀπαγαγὼν τὰσ ναῦσ ἔγνω διαβαίνειν τὸν Ἴστρον ἐπὶ τοὺσ Γέτασ τοὺσ πέραν τοῦ Ἴστρου ᾠκισμένουσ, ὅτι τε συνειλεγμένουσ ἑώρα πολλοὺσ ἐπὶ τῇ ὄχθῃ τοῦ Ἴστρου, ὡσ εἴρξοντασ, εἰ διαβαίνοι, ‐ ἦσαν γὰρ ἱππεῖσ μὲν ἐσ τετρακισχιλίουσ, πεζοὶ δὲ πλείουσ τῶν μυρίων ‐ καὶ ἅμα πόθοσ ἔλαβεν αὐτὸν ἐπέκεινα τοῦ Ἴστρου ἐλθεῖν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 3 5:1)

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