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δεκαταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεκαταῖος δεκαταῖη δεκαταῖον

Structure: δεκαται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: deka/th

Sense

  1. on the tenth day
  2. ten days old

Examples

  • καὶ τὸν Θαλῆν τότε μὲν σιωπῆσαι, διαλιπόντα δ’ ὀλίγασ ἡμέρασ ἄνδρα παρασκευάσαι ξένον, ἀρτίωσ ἥκειν φάσκοντα δεκαταῖον ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 1:2)
  • ἐχθὲσ δειπνήσασ τράγεον πόδα, καὶ δεκαταῖον κανναβίνησ κράμβησ μήλινον ἀσπάραγον, εἰπεῖν τὸν καλέσαντα φυλάσσομαι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3251)

Synonyms

  1. on the tenth day

  2. ten days old

Related

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

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