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πεντετηρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντετηρίς πεντετηρίδος

Structure: πεντετηριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. a term of five years, every five years
  2. a festival celebrated every five years

Declension

Third 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

  • οὕτω γὰρ ὑπέλαβον ὑμῶν οἱ πατέρεσ σπουδαῖον εἶναι ποιητὴν ὥστε νόμον ἔθεντο καθ’ ἑκάστην πεντετηρίδα τῶν Παναθηναίων μόνου τῶν ἄλλων ποιητῶν ῥαψῳδεῖσθαι τὰ ἔπη, ἐπίδειξιν ποιούμενοι πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ὅτι τὰ κάλλιστα τῶν ἔργων προῃροῦντο. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 138:2)
  • ἔτι δ’, ὥσπερ εἴπομεν, οὐ συγγραφῆσ ἔργον ψιλῆσ προειλόμεθα ἀφηγεῖσθαι τὰ πεπραγμένα τῇ πόλει, καὶ γὰρ ἂν εἰσ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν πεντετηρίδα ἐκτείνοιτο ὁ λόγοσ, ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν κατὰ τοὺσ πολέμουσ πράξεων τὰσ γνωριμωτάτασ εἰπεῖν, τῶν δ’ ὑπαρχόντων ἀγαθῶν τῇ πόλει καθ’ ὅσον δυνατὸν μηδὲν παραλιπεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 69:3)

Synonyms

  1. a term of five years

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

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