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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

  • Βοιρεβίστασ ἀνὴρ Γέτησ, ἐπιστὰσ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ ἔθνουσ ἐπιστασίαν, ἀνέλαβε κεκακωμένουσ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ὑπὸ συχνῶν πολέμων καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐπῆρεν ἀσκήσει καὶ νήψει καὶ τῷ προσέχειν τοῖσ προστάγμασιν, ὥστ’ ὀλίγων ἐτῶν μεγάλην ἀρχὴν κατεστήσατο καὶ τῶν ὁμόρων τοὺσ πλείστουσ ὑπέταξε τοῖσ Γέταισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 22:2)

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