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πεμπάς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 이형 Transliteration: pempas

Principal Part: πεμπάς πεμπάδος

Structure: πεμπαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: πέμπε

Sense

  1. a body of five

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

  • "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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