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ἔτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔτης ἔτες

Structure: ἐτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mostly in pl.

Sense

  1. clansmen, the kinsmen of a great house, cousins
  2. a townsman, neighbour, a private citizen

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 ἀνέβησαν κατὰ τὴν ἔρημον καὶ ἀπῆλθον ἕωσ Χεβρών, καὶ ἐκεῖ Ἀχιμὰν καὶ Σεσσὶ καὶ Θελαμί, γενεαὶ Ἐνάχ. καὶ Χεβρὼν ἑπτὰ ἔτεσιν ᾠκοδομήθη πρὸ τοῦ Τανὶν Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 13:23)
  • καὶ πᾶν τὸ πλεονάζον, ὃ οὐκ ἀπεδίδοσαν οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν χρειῶν, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ πρώτοισ ἔτεσιν, ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν δώσουσιν εἰσ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ οἴκου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:41)
  • καὶ νῦν λέγω. ἐν τρισὶν ἔτεσιν ἐτῶν μισθωτοῦ ἀτιμασθήσεται ἡ δόξα Μωὰβ ἐν παντὶ τῷ πλούτῳ τῷ πολλῷ, καὶ καταλειφθήσεται ὀλιγοστὸσ καὶ οὐκ ἔντιμοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 16:14)
  • διεξελθών τε πράξεισ Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων ἔτεσιν ὁμοῦ διακοσίοισ καὶ εἴκοσι γενομένασ ἐν ταῖσ τρισὶν ἠπείροισ καὶ παραγράψασ τῆσ Ξέρξου φυγῆσ τὴν ἱστορίαν οὐ διέσπασε τὴν διήγησιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 14:2)
  • οὗτοσ ἀκολουθεῖ τῷ προτέρῳ λόγῳ καὶ πολλὰ ἔχει κατὰ τὴν λέξιν τοιαῦτα, ἃ εἰή ἂν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ῥήτοροσ, ἔξω τῆσ τῶν Δεινάρχου ἡλικίασ πολλοῖσ ἔτεσιν ὕστερον ἠγώνισται τὸν ἀγῶνα ὁ κατήγοροσ, ἀλλὰ δύο ἢ τρισίν, ὡσ ἀκριβέστερον περὶ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ περὶ Δημοσθένουσ γραφῇ δεδηλώκαμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, , chapter 13 2:3)

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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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