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πολῖτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολῖτις πολῖτιδος

Structure: πολῑτιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of poli/ths, Soph., Eur., etc.

Sense

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

  • χαίρετε δ’ ὑμεῖσ πολλά, πολίτιδεσ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:12)
  • ὦ φίλταται γυναῖκεσ, ὦ πολίτιδεσ, ὁρᾶτ’ Ὀρέστην τόνδε, μηχαναῖσι μὲν θανόντα, νῦν δὲ μηχαναῖσ σεσωσμένον. (Sophocles, episode 4:35)
  • αὐτίκα οὐ δοκεῖ μοι Δαίδαλοσ καλῶσ εἰργάσθαι ἐν Κρήτῃ τὸν Λαβύρινθον, οὗ εἰσερχόμενοι ἀπώλλυντο οἱ πολῖται αὐτοῦ καὶ αἱ πολίτιδεσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 11:2)

Similar forms

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

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