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ἐπίτριτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτριτος ἐπίτριτον

Structure: ἐπιτριτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one and a third
  2. a loan of which 1/3 is paid as interest, p. cent.

Examples

  • τὸ γὰρ ἡμιόλιον, τοῦ ἐπιτρίτου τῷ ἐπογδόῳ τῷ ἐπιτρίτῳ προστιθεμένου, συμπληροῦσθαι καὶ τὸ ἡμιόλιον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 19 6:1)
  • "τοῖσ γοῦν αὐτοῖσ λόγοισ οἱ ἄκροι τῆσ μέσησ καὶ παραμέσησ ὑπερέχουσι καὶ ὑπερέχονται, ἐπιτρίτῳ καὶ ἡμιολίῳ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 2316)
  • "καθάπερ γὰρ οἱ περὶ λύραν κανονικοὶ τῶν λόγων φασὶ τὸν μὲν ἡμιόλιον τὴν διὰ πέντε συμφωνίαν παρασχεῖν τὸν δὲ διπλάσιον τὴν διὰ πασῶν, τὴν δὲ διὰ τεσσάρων ἀμυδροτάτην οὖσαν ἐν ἐπιτρίτῳ συνίστασθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. one and a third

Related

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

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