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πεντετηρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντετηρικός πεντετηρική πεντετηρικόν

Structure: πεντετηρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from pentethri/s

Sense

  1. happening every five years, quinquennial

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

  • νυνὶ δὲ πεντετηρικὸσ ἱερὸσ ἀγὼν συντελεῖται παρ’ αὐτοῖσ μουσικόσ τε καὶ γυμνικὸσ ἐπὶ πλείουσ ἡμέρασ, ἐνάμιλλοσ τοῖσ ἐπιφανεστάτοισ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 14:5)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν Νικόπολισ εὐανδρεῖ καὶ λαμβάνει καθ’ ἡμέραν ἐπίδοσιν, χώραν τε ἔχουσα πολλὴν καὶ τὸν ἐκ τῶν λαφύρων κόσμον, τό τε κατασκευασθὲν τέμενοσ ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ τὸ μὲν εἰσ τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν πεντετηρικὸν ἐν ἄλσει ἔχοντι γυμνάσιόν τε καὶ στάδιον, τὸ δ’ ἐν τῷ ὑπερκειμένῳ τοῦ ἄλσουσ ἱερῷ λόφῳ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 12:11)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀμφιθέατρον καὶ στάδιον καὶ οἱ πεντετηρικοὶ ἀγῶνεσ ἐκεῖ συντελοῦνται· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 20:6)

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

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