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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

  • κληροῖ δὲ καὶ ἑτέρουσ δέκα, τοὺσ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν καλουμένουσ, οἳ θυσίασ τέ τινασ θύουσι, καὶ τὰσ πεντετηρίδασ ἁπάσασ διοικοῦσιν πλὴν Παναθηναίων. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 54 7:1)
  • ἀλλ’ αὐτοὶ ἴστε πολλὰσ πεντετηρίδασ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ διατρίψαντα τὸν πατέρ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀποδράντα, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀφεθέντα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 185:4)

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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