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πεντηκοστή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντηκοστή πεντηκοστῆς

Structure: πεντηκοστ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Pentecost - From the feast called Shavuot, which means "Festival of Weeks" and is the "fiftieth day" after Passover.

Declension

First 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

  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ <τῆσ> πεντηκοστῆσ μετέχων ἐτύγχανεν, ἣν οὐκ ἂν καταλιπὼν κατ’ ἐμπορίαν ἀπεδήμει. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 77:4)
  • Ἀγύρριοσ γὰρ οὑτοσί, ὁ καλὸσ κἀγαθόσ, ἀρχώνησ ἐγένετο τῆσ πεντηκοστῆσ τρίτον ἔτοσ, καὶ ἐπρίατο τριάκοντα ταλάντων, μετέσχον δ’ αὐτῷ οὗτοι πάντεσ οἱ παρασυλλεγέντεσ ὑπὸ τὴν λεύκην, οὓσ ὑμεῖσ ἴστε οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν· (Andocides, Speeches, 215:2)
  • Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄρχεσθαι τῆσ διαρθρώσεωσ ἀπὸ ἕκτησ καὶ τριακοστῆσ, τελειοῦσθαι δὲ τοῖσ μορίοισ ἀπὸ πεντηκοστῆσ μιᾶσ δεούσησ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:1)
  • πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ ἐνδοτέρω πληροῦσθαι δ’ ἐντὸσ τῆσ πεντηκοστῆσ τοῖσ μορίοισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2:3)
  • διάδοχοσ δὲ τῆσ ἡγεμονίασ ὁ γαμβρὸσ αὐτοῦ γίνεται Τύλλιοσ ἐνιαυτῷ τετάρτῳ τῆσ πεντηκοστῆσ ὀλυμπιάδοσ, ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Ἐπιτελίδησ Λάκων ἄρχοντοσ Ἀθήνησιν Ἀρχεστρατίδου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 1 3:1)

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