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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

  • τὴν δὲ τελευταίαν Ἑσπέρου συνέβαινεν εἶναι, τῆσ ὡρ́ασ εἰσ τοῦτο συναγούσησ τὸν καιρόν, τὰ δὲ κατά μέροσ αὐτῶν εἴ τισ εἰδέναι βούλεται, τὰσ τῶν πεντετηρίδων γραφὰσ λαμβάνων ἐπισκοπείτω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:98)

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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