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δωδεκαταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωδεκαταῖος δωδεκαταῖη δωδεκαταῖον

Structure: δωδεκαται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. on the twelfth day
  2. twelve days old

Declension

First/Second 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

  • στέψον τὰν κελέβαν φοινικέῳ οἰὸσ ἀώτῳ, ὡσ τὸν ἐμὸν βαρὺν εὖντα φίλον καταθύσομαι ἄνδρα, ὅσ μοι δωδεκαταῖοσ ἀφ’ ὧ τάλασ οὐδέποθ’ ἵκει, οὐδ’ ἔγνω πότερον τεθνάκαμεσ ἢ ζοοὶ εἰμέσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)
  • νῦν δέ τε δωδεκαταῖοσ ἀφ’ ὧτέ νιν οὐδὲ ποτεῖδον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 108)
  • 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)
  • παρεγενήθη μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τῆσ Ἐφέσου δωδεκαταῖοσ εἰσ τὰ Φάλαρα πάλιν, ἀφ’ ἧσ ὡρ́μηθ’ ἡμέρασ· (Polybius, Histories, book 20, chapter 11 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. on the twelfth day

  2. twelve days old

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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