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πεμπάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 이형 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεμπάς πεμπάδος

Structure: πεμπαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpe

Sense

  1. a body of five

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πεμπάς πεμπάδε πεμπάδες
Genitive πεμπάδος πεμπάδοιν πεμπάδων
Dative πεμπάδι πεμπάδοιν πεμπάσιν*
Accusative πεμπάδα πεμπάδε πεμπάδας
Vocative πεμπά πεμπάδε πεμπάδες

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

  • "ἀρχὴ μὲν γὰρ ἀριθμοῦ παντὸσ ἡ μονάσ, τετράγωνοσ δὲ πρῶτοσ ἡ τετράσ ἐκ δὲ τούτων, ὥσπερ ἰδέασ καὶ ὕλησ πέρασ ἐχούσησ, ἡ πεμπάσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 142)
  • εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ τὴν μονάδα τετράγωνον ὀρθῶσ ἔνιοι τίθενται, δύναμιν οὖσαν ἑαυτῆσ καὶ περαίνουσαν εἰσ ἑαυτήν, ἐκ δυεῖν πεφυκυῖα τῶν πρώτων τετραγώνων ἡ πεμπὰσ οὐκ ἀπολέλοιπεν ὑπερβολὴν εὐγενείασ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 143)

Similar forms

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

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