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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

  • ὅσ ποτε ἐν πολέμῳ τελευτήσασ, ἀναιρεθέντων δεκαταίων τῶν νεκρῶν ἤδη διεφθαρμένων, ὑγιὴσ μὲν ἀνῃρέθη, κομισθεὶσ δ’ οἴκαδε μέλλων θάπτεσθαι δωδεκαταῖοσ ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ κείμενοσ ἀνεβίω, ἀναβιοὺσ δ’ ἔλεγεν ἃ ἐκεῖ ἴδοι. (Plato, Republic, book 10 430:2)

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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