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πέμπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέμπτος πέμπτη πέμπτον

Structure: πεμπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (ordinal) fifth
  2. (feminine substantive), the fifth day
  3. via quintana, one of the lanes in the Roman camp

Examples

  • πέμπτασ δ’ ἐξαλέασθαι, ἐπεὶ χαλεπαί τε καὶ αἰναί· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 98:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ οὕτωσ πέφυκε καὶ ἡ τριὰσ καὶ ἡ πεμπτὰσ καὶ ὁ ἥμισυσ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ ἅπασ, ὥστε οὐκ ὢν ὅπερ τὸ περιττὸν ἀεὶ ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν ἐστι περιττόσ· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 767:4)
  • πέμπτασ τοίνυν, ἃσ ἡδονὰσ ἔθεμεν ἀλύπουσ ὁρισάμενοι, καθαρὰσ ἐπονομάσαντεσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ αὐτῆσ, ἐπιστήμαισ, τὰσ δὲ αἰσθήσεσιν ἑπομένασ; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 334:2)

Synonyms

  1. fifth

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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