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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

  • ἄρρενα δὲ μὴ πρόσθεν ἢ διέτη γενόμενον ἐξάγειν ἐπὶ θήραν· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 26 1:1)
  • ἀγαθὴ δὲ τῇ θηλείᾳ ἡλικία ἡ ἀπὸ διέτουσ ἐσ ἕβδομον ἔτοσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 27 2:3)
  • καὶ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐπικλήρου τισ γένηται καὶ ἅμα ἡβήσῃ ἐπὶ δίετεσ, κρατεῖν τῶν χρημάτων, τὸν δὲ σῖτον μετρεῖν τῇ μητρί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 36:1)
  • ὅ τι ἂν γνησίων ὄντων υἱέων ὁ πατὴρ διαθῆται ἐὰν ἀποθάνωσιν οἱ υἱεῖσ πρὶν ἐπὶ δίετεσ ἡβᾶν, τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ διαθήκην κυρίαν εἶναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 47:1)
  • ἤδη δὲ πόρρω τῆσ ἡμέρασ ὄν, προελθὼν ὁ κῆρυξ ἀνεῖπε, Δελφῶν ὅσοι ἐπὶ δίετεσ ἡβῶσι, καὶ δούλουσ καὶ ἐλευθέρουσ, ἥκειν αὔριον ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἔχοντασ ἄμασ καὶ δικέλλασ πρὸσ τὸ Θυτεῖον ἐκεῖ καλούμενον· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 122 1:2)
  • 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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