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ἐννεάς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: enneas

Principal Part: ἐννεάς ἐννεάδος

Structure: ἐννεαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἐννέα

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

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

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