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πενταετία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενταετία

Structure: πενταετι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = pentaethri/s, Plut.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἡ πενταετία παρώδευε, καὶ τὸ ἀσφαλὲσ ἡ χρεία συνῆγεν ἀμφοτέροισ παρ’ ἀλλήλων, τοῖσ μὲν ἡγεμόσιν ἐσ τὴν ἀρχὴν παρὰ τοῦ στρατοῦ, τῷ στρατῷ δὲ ἐσ τὴν ἐπικράτησιν ὧν ἔλαβον, ἡ τῶν δεδωκότων ἀρχὴ παραμένουσα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 2 2:4)
  • τὰ δὲ Προπύλαια τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἐξειργάσθη μὲν ἐν πενταετίᾳ Μνησικλέουσ ἀρχιτεκτονοῦντοσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 13 7:1)
  • δύο γὰρ ἔλειπεν ἔτη τῇ δευτέρᾳ πενταετίᾳ τῆσδε τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, ἣν ἐπὶ τῇ προτέρᾳ σφίσιν αὐτοῖσ ἐψηφίσαντο καὶ ὁ δῆμοσ ἐπεκεκυρώκει. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 4:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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