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πενθητήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενθητήριος πενθητήριᾱ πενθητήριον

Structure: πενθητηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: penqe/w

Sense

  1. of or in sign of mourning

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τὸν δεύτερον δὲ τόνδε πενθητήριον οὐ γὰρ παρὼν ᾤμωξα σόν, πάτερ, μόρον οὐδ’ ἐξέτεινα χεῖρ’ ἐπ’ ἐκφορᾷ νεκροῦ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. of or in sign of mourning

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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