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πενεστεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενεστεία

Structure: πενεστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = oi( pene/stai

Sense

  1. the class of Penestae

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πενεστεία πενεστείᾱ πενεστεῖαι
Genitive πενεστείᾱς πενεστείαιν πενεστειῶν
Dative πενεστείᾱͅ πενεστείαιν πενεστείαις
Accusative πενεστείᾱν πενεστείᾱ πενεστείᾱς
Vocative πενεστείᾱ πενεστείᾱ πενεστεῖαι

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

  • ἥ τε γὰρ Θετταλῶν πενεστεία πολλάκισ ἐπέθετο τοῖσ Θετταλοῖσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ Λάκωσιν οἱ εἵλωτεσ ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐφεδρεύοντεσ τοῖσ ἀτυχήμασι διατελοῦσιν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 199:2)

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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