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πεντηκοστύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντηκοστύς πεντηκοστύος

Structure: πεντηκοστυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: penth/konta

Sense

  1. a number of fifty

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

  • ὁπότε δὲ διάσχοιεν αἱ πλευραὶ τοῦ πλαισίου, τὸ μέσον ἂν ἐξεπίμπλασαν, εἰ μὲν στενότερον εἰή τὸ διέχον, κατὰ λόχουσ, εἰ δὲ πλατύτερον, κατὰ πεντηκοστῦσ, εἰ δὲ πάνυ πλατύ, κατ’ ἐνωμοτίασ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. a number of fifty

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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