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νητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νητός νητή νητόν

Structure: νητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/w4

Sense

  1. heaped, piled up

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἔσται γὰρ τὰ δώδεκα πρὸσ μὲν τὰ ἐννέα διὰ τεσσάρων ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ παραμέσην, πρὸσ δὲ τὰ ὀκτὼ διὰ πέντε ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ μέσην, πρὸσ δὲ τὰ σ’ διὰ πασῶν ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 13 5:1)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ αὐλῶν ὁ μείζων βαρύτερον φθέγξεται ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην, τῶν δὲ χορδῶν ἡ τῷ διπλασίῳ κατατεινομένη βάρει τῆσ ἑτέρασ ὀξύτερον ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 17 6:1)
  • καὶ ὅνπερ ἡ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην ἐν μουσικῇ λόγον ἔχει, τοῦτον ἡ Λυσίου λέξισ ἐν πολιτικῇ διαλέκτῳ πρὸσ τὴν Θουκυδίδου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 2 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. heaped

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

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