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εἰκοσάμηνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eikosamēnos

Principal Part: εἰκοσάμηνος εἰκοσάμηνον

Structure: εἰκοσαμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: μήν

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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