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εἰκοσάμηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκοσάμηνος εἰκοσάμηνον

Structure: εἰκοσαμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh/n

Sense

  1. twenty months old

Examples

  • Ἡ παῖσ ᾤχετ’ ἀώροσ ἐν ἑβδόμῳ ἥδ’ ἐνιαυτῷ εἰσ Αἴδην πολλοῖσ ἡλικίησ προτέρη, δειλαίη, ποθέουσα τὸν εἰκοσάμηνον ἀδελφόν, νήπιον ἀστόργου γευσάμενον θανάτου. (Theocritus, Idylls1)
  • ἡ παῖσ ᾤχετ’ ἀώροσ ἐν ἑβδόμῳ ἥδ’ ἐνιαυτῷ εἰσ ἀίδην, πολλῆσ ἡλικίησ προτέρη, δειλαίη, ποθέουσα τὸν εἰκοσάμηνον ἀδελφόν, νήπιον ἀστόργου γευσάμενον θανάτου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6621)

Synonyms

  1. twenty months 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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