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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

  • Κόλχοι δὲ τὰ ἐτάξαντο ἐσ τὴν δωρεὴν καὶ οἱ προσεχέεσ μέχρι Καυκάσιοσ ὄρεοσ ἐσ τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ ὄροσ ὑπὸ Πέρσῃσι ἄρχεται, τὰ δὲ πρὸσ βορέην ἄνεμον τοῦ Καυκάσιοσ Περσέων οὐδὲν ἔτι φροντίζει , οὗτοι ὦν δῶρα τὰ ἐτάξαντο ἔτι καὶ ἐσ ἐμὲ διὰ πεντετηρίδοσ ἀγίνεον, ἑκατὸν παῖδασ καὶ ἑκατὸν παρθένουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 97 5:1)
  • διὰ πεντετηρίδοσ τε τὸν πάλῳ λαχόντα αἰεὶ σφέων αὐτῶν ἀποπέμπουσι ἄγγελον παρὰ τὸν Σάλμοξιν, ἐντελλόμενοι τῶν ἂν ἑκάστοτε δέωνται, πέμπουσι δὲ ὧδε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 94 2:1)
  • μόνοι δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων καθ’ ἕκαστον ἔτοσ ποιεῖτε πανήγυριν οὐδεμιᾶσ πεντετηρίδοσ φαυλοτέραν καὶ δέχεσθε τῷ Ἐλευσινίῳ πλείουσ ἢ ἕτεροι τῇ πάσῃ πόλει· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 101:7)

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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