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δεκέτης?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: deketēs

Principal Part: δεκέτης δεκέτες

Structure: δεκετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἔτος

Sense

  1. lasting ten years
  2. ten years old

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

  • σὺ δ ἀλλὰ τασδὶ τὰς δεκέτεις γεῦσαι λαβών. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 6:23)
  • ὦ μελέα ψυχά, ὃς μηδ οἰνοχύτου πώματος ἥσθη δεκέτει χρόνῳ, λεύσσων δ ὅπου γνοίη στατὸν εἰς ὕδωρ, ἀεὶ προσενώμα. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 22)
  • ἅδε ποθ ἁ κλεινὰ Πριάμου πόλις, ἃν ἀλαπάξαι Ἑλλάνων δεκέτης οὐκ ἐτάλασσεν ἄρης ἀμφαδόν, ἀλλ ἵπποιο κακὸν ξύλον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1521)
  • Δέρκεο τὸν Τροίας % δεκέτη λόχον εἴσιδε πῶλον εὐόπλου Δαναῶν ἔγκυον ἡσυχίης. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1561)
  • θυγατέρες μὲν Μαιονίδου, μύθων δ ἵστορες Ἰλιακῶν ἁ μία μὲν μηνιθμὸν Ἀχιλλέος, ἔργα τε χειρὸς Ἑκτορέας, δεκέτους τ ἆθλα λέγει πολέμου: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1923)
  • ἦν μὲν γὰρ δὴ τότε Κριτίας, ὡς ἔφη, σχεδὸν ἐγγὺς ἤδη τῶν ἐνενήκοντα ἐτῶν, ἐγὼ δέ πῃ μάλιστα δεκέτης: (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 25:4)

Synonyms

  1. lasting ten years

  2. ten years old

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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