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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

  • πάλιν ἥδεσθαι μὲν ἀφροδισίοισ καὶ σιτίοισ καὶ ποτοῖσ ἡδέσιν ἀνάγκη τόν τε Ιὤνα καὶ τὸν Θετταλὸν καὶ τὸν Ἰταλιώτην καὶ τὸν Γέτην καὶ τὸν Ἰνδὸν καὶ τὸν Σπαρτιάτην· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:2)
  • οἱ δὲ οὐκ Ἀγαθοκλέα, Λυσίμαχον δὲ αὐτὸν ἁλῶναι λέγουσιν, ἀνασωθῆναι δὲ Ἀγαθοκλέουσ τὰ πρὸσ τὸν Γέτην ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πράξαντοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 11:1)

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