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ἑξαετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξαετής ἑξαετές

Structure: ἑξαετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. six years old
  2. of six years, for six years

Examples

  • αἱ γὰρ ἑξαετεῖσ αὐτοῖσ περὶ τῆσ εἰρήνησ πρὸσ Ταρκύνιον ἀνοχαὶ διεληλύθεσαν ἤδη, καὶ πολλοῖσ τῶν Σαβίνων πόθοσ ἦν ἐπανορθώσασθαι τὰσ προτέρασ ἥττασ ἐπιτεθραμμένησ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι νεότητοσ ἱκανῆσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 59 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. six years old

  2. of six years

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

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