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πενθημιμερής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενθημιμερής πενθημιμερές

Structure: πενθημιμερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. consisting of five halves, two and a half, after two feet and a half

Examples

  • τρίτον δέ ἐστι παρὰ Ἀρχιλόχῳ ἀσυνάρτητον ἐκ δακτυλικοῦ πενθημιμεροῦσ καὶ ἰαμβικοῦ διμέτρου ἀκαταλήκτου· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 316)

Synonyms

  1. consisting of five halves

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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