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δεκαδεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: dekadeus

Principal Part: δεκαδεύς

Structure: δεκαδευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: δεκάς

Sense

  1. one of a decury

Declension

Third 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

  • ὡς γὰρ τὰ πολλὰ δεκάδαρχοι μὲν δεκαδέων ἐπιμέλονται, λοχαγοὶ δὲ δεκαδάρχων, χιλίαρχοι δὲ λοχαγῶν, μυρίαρχοι δὲ χιλιάρχων, καὶ οὕτως οὐδεὶς ἀτημέλητος γίγνεται, οὐδ ἢν πάνυ πολλαὶ μυριάδες ἀνθρώπων ὦσι, καὶ ὅταν ὁ στρατηγὸς βούληται χρήσασθαί τι τῇ στρατιᾷ, ἀρκεῖ ἢν τοῖς μυριάρχοις παραγγείλῃ: (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 17:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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