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διετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διετής διετές

Structure: διετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. of or lasting two years, two years

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

  • ἀλλὰ τῶνδε μὲν ἑκατέρῳ διετὴσ ἐτρίφθη χρόνοσ, τοὺσ γειτονασ ἐνοχλοῦντασ Ἄραβασ ἀμυνομένῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 6:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Μηδικὸσ ὀνομασθεὶσ πόλεμοσ γενόμενοσ διετὴσ τοῦτο ἔσχε τὸ πέρασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 37 8:1)
  • ὡσ γὰρ διέτησ χρόνοσ ἐγεγόνεε ταῦτα τῷ ποιμένι πρήσσοντι, ἀνοίγοντι τὴν θύρην καὶ ἐσιόντι τὰ παιδία ἀμφότερα προσπίπτοντα βεκὸσ ἐφώνεον, ὀρέγοντα τὰσ χεῖρασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 2 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or lasting two years

Similar forms

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

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