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ἐννεάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐννεάς ἐννεάδος

Structure: ἐννεαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)nne/a

Sense

  1. a body of nine

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)
  • Δαφνιακῶν βίβλων Ἀγαθία ἡ ἐννεάσ εἰμι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 801)
  • ἢν δέ με Μουσάων ἐτάσῃσ χάριν, ὧν ἀφ’ ἑκάστησ δαίμονοσ ἄνθοσ ἐμῇ θῆκα παρ’ ἐννεάδι, γνώσεαι ὡσ Αἴδεω σκότον ἔκφυγον οὐδέ τισ ἔσται τῆσ λυρικῆσ Σαπφοῦσ νώνυμοσ ἠέλιοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 17 1:1)
  • τὸ ἔνατον τῶν Συμποσιακῶν, ὦ Σόσσιε Σενεκίων, περιέχει λόγουσ τοὺσ Ἀθήνησιν ἐν τοῖσ Μουσείοισ γενομένουσ καὶ μάλιστα τὴν ἐννεάδα ταῖσ Μούσαισ προσήκειν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, chapter 01)
  • "ἡ γὰρ ἐννεὰσ δήπου ταῖσ Μούσαισ ἡ δ’ ἑβδομὰσ τῷ Μουσηγέτῃ προσκεκλήρωται· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. a body of nine

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

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