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ἑκατοντάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑκατοντάς ἑκατοντάδος

Structure: ἑκατονταδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hundred

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ οἱ σατράπαι τῶν ἀλλοφύλων παρεπορεύοντο εἰσ ἑκατοντάδασ καὶ χιλιάδασ, καὶ Δαυὶδ καὶ οἱ ἄνδρεσ αὐτοῦ παρεπορεύοντο ἐπ̓ ἐσχάτων μετὰ Ἀγχοῦσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 29:2)
  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ὁ βασιλεύσ. ὃ ἐὰν ἀρέσῃ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ ὑμῶν, ποιήσω. καὶ ἔστη ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἀνὰ χεῖρα τῆσ πύλησ, καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ἐξεπορεύετο εἰσ ἑκατοντάδασ καὶ εἰσ χιλιάδασ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 18:4)
  • ἢ τί γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι παθόντεσ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τούτων ἑκατοντάδασ καὶ χιλιάδασ βιβλίων ἕκαστοι συγγεγράφασιν, ὡσ πείσαιεν, οἶμαι, ἀληθῆ εἶναι τὰ ὀλίγα ἐκεῖνα καὶ ἅ σοι δοκεῖ ῥᾴδια καὶ εὐμαθῆ; (Lucian, 115:1)
  • ὦ μάκαρ, ὃσ δισσὰσ ἤνυσα χιλιάδασ, πρὸσ δ’ ἔτι πέντ’ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἑκατοντάδασ ἔνθεν ἐλαύνων ἡ γὰρ Ταρπείη μέμβλετ’ ἀνακτορίη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 121 2:1)
  • οὐκ ἐτέων δεκάδασ, νίκησ δ’ ἑκατοντάδασ αὐχῶν πολλάσ, καὶ πάσασ συγγενέασ Χαρίτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 356 1:1)

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

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