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πολυετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυετής πολυετές

Structure: πολυετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. of many years, full of years

Examples

  • ὀλίγοισ μὲν οὖν ἔτεσι διαμαρτεῖν τῶν χρόνων δοίη τισ ἂν ἱστορικοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ἀρχαίασ καὶ πολυετεῖσ συνταττομένοισ πραγματείασ, γενεαῖσ δὲ δυσὶν ἢ τρισὶν ὅλαισ ἀποπλανηθῆναι τῆσ ἀληθείασ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιτρέψειεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 1 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. of many years

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

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