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πενθήμερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενθήμερος πενθήμερον

Structure: πενθημερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of five days, spaces of five days

Examples

  • τὰσ δ’ ἕδρασ ποιεῖν τῆσ βουλῆσ κατὰ πενθήμερον, ἐὰν μὴ δέωνται πλειόνων. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 30 4:2)
  • ἀκούσαντεσ ταῦτα οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι μετεπείσθησαν, καὶ ἐψηφίσαντο κατὰ πενθήμερον ἑκατέρουσ ἡγεῖσθαι. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 17:2)
  • καὶ τόνδε τὸν πενθήμερον ἄρχοντα ἰντέρρηγα ἐκάλουν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. of five days

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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