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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

  • εἰσὶ δὲ πεντετηρίδεσ μία μὲν ἡ εἰσ Δῆλον ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἑπτετηρὶσ ἐνταῦθα, δευτέρα δὲ Βραυρώνια, τρίτη δ’ Ἡράκλεια, τετάρτη δ’ Ἐλευσίνια· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 54 7:2)

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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