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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

  • καταστασιάσασ δὲ καὶ ἀνελὼν τὸν ὕπατον κατὰ Βιθυνίαν αὐτὸσ κατεστάθη κύριοσ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ, καὶ προελθὼν εἰσ Ἴλιον, οὐ δεχομένων αὐτὸν τῶν Ἰλιέων ὡσ λῃστήν, βίαν τε προσφέρει καὶ δεκαταίουσ αἱρεῖ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 46:7)

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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