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ἑξάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξάς ἑξάδος

Structure: ἑξαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/c

Sense

  1. the number six

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑξάς ἑξάδε ἑξάδες
Genitive ἑξάδος ἑξάδοιν ἑξάδων
Dative ἑξάδι ἑξάδοιν ἑξάσιν*
Accusative ἑξάδα ἑξάδε ἑξάδας
Vocative ἑξά ἑξάδε ἑξάδες

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

  • εἰ δ’ ἀτελὴσ θάνατοσ σπουδαί τε δεσποί‐ νασ, ὅ τε καιρὸσ ἄπεισι τόλμασ, ᾇ νῦν ἐλπὶσ ἐφαίνετ’, ἢ θη‐ κτὸν ξίφοσ ἢ δαίμων ἐξά‐ ψει βρόχον ἀμφὶ δειρήν, πάθεσι πάθεα δ’ ἐξανύτουσ’ εἰσ ἄλλασ βιότου κάτει‐ σι μορφάσ. (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ ἐπαύσαντο οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται κρίνοντεσ τὸν Θεογένην καὶ ὀργιζόμενοι αὐτῷ, καὶ συγγνώμην εἶχον ἐξα‐ πατηθέντι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 125:3)
  • Οἱᾶ καὶ ὅτε χειριστέα καὶ τὰ ἐκ γενεῆσ ἔξα ρθρα, τὰ αὐξανόμενα, τὰ ηὐξημένα, καὶ ὅ τι θᾶσσον, καὶ ὅ τι βραδύτερον, καὶ ὅ τι χωλὸν, καὶ ὡσ, καὶ οὔ‧ καὶ διότι καὶ ὅ τι μινυθήσει, καὶ ᾗ, καὶ ὡσ, καὶ οἷσιν ἧσσον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 40.4)

Synonyms

  1. the number six

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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