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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

  • τρεῖσ μέν οἱ πολίων ἑκατοντάδεσ ἐνδέδμηνται, τρεῖσ δ’ ἄρα χιλιάδεσ τρισσαῖσ ἐπὶ μυριάδεσσι, δοιαὶ δὲ τριάδεσ, μετὰ δέ σφισιν ἐννεάδεσ τρεῖσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 45)
  • τοῦτο μὲν δὴ τό ἐκ τῆσ Ἀσίησ ναυτικὸν ἦν, σύμπαν ἐὸν πεντήκοντα μυριάδεσ καὶ μία, χιλιάδεσ δὲ ἔπεισι ἐπὶ ταύτῃσι ἑπτὰ καὶ πρὸσ ἑκατοντάδεσ ἓξ καὶ δεκάσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 184 5:1)
  • καὶ δὴ τό τε ἐκ τῶν νεῶν καὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ πλῆθοσ συντιθέμενον γίνεται διηκόσιαί τε μυριάδεσ καὶ τριήκοντα καὶ μία, καὶ πρὸσ χιλιάδεσ ἑπτὰ καὶ ἑκατοντάδεσ ἓξ καὶ δεκάσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 184 6:1)
  • αὗται ὦν αἱ μυριάδεσ ἐκείνῃσι προστεθεῖσαι τῇσι ἐκ τῆσ Ἀσίησ, γίνονται αἱ πᾶσαι ἀνδρῶν αἱ μάχιμοι μυριάδεσ διηκόσιαι καὶ ἑξήκοντα καὶ τέσσερεσ, ἔπεισι δὲ ταύτῃσι ἑκατοντάδεσ ἑκκαίδεκα καὶ δεκάσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 185 4:1)
  • οὗτοι, πλὴν τῶν ἑπτὰ περὶ ἕκαστον τεταγμένων Σπαρτιήτῃσι, ἦσαν ὁπλῖται, σύμπαντεσ ἐόντεσ ἀριθμὸν τρεῖσ τε μυριάδεσ καὶ ὀκτὼ χιλιάδεσ καὶ ἑκατοντάδεσ ἑπτά. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 29 2:1)

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

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