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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

  • τρεφομένου γὰρ κριοῦ πολυετοῦσ κατὰ τὴν οἰκίαν, ἐπαγγείλασθαι ταῖσ κόραισ τοῦτον πρότερον καθεψήσειν καὶ ποιήσειν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἄρνα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 52 1:3)

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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