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ποσταῖος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: postaios

Principal Part: ποσταῖος ποσταῖη ποσταῖον

Structure: ποσται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πόστος

Sense

  1. in how many days?

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ποσταῖος ποσταία ποσταῖον
Genitive ποσταίου ποσταίας ποσταίου
Dative ποσταίῳ ποσταίᾳ ποσταίῳ
Accusative ποσταῖον ποσταίαν ποσταῖον
Vocative ποσταῖε ποσταία ποσταῖον
DualN/A/V ποσταίω ποσταία ποσταίω
G/D ποσταίοιν ποσταίαιν ποσταίοιν
PluralNominative ποσταῖοι ποσταῖαι ποσταῖα
Genitive ποσταίων ποσταιῶν ποσταίων
Dative ποσταίοις ποσταίαις ποσταίοις
Accusative ποσταίους ποσταίας ποσταῖα
Vocative ποσταῖοι ποσταῖαι ποσταῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ποσταῖος ποσταίου ποσταιώτερος ποσταιωτέρου ποσταιώτατος ποσταιωτάτου
Adverb ποσταίως ποσταιώτερον ποσταιώτατα

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

  • ἐγὼ δ, ἔφη ὁ Κῦρος, ποσταῖος ἂν τῷ στρατεύματι ἐκεῖσε ἀφικοίμην· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 34:1)
  • πρὸς τὸν λέγοντα περὶ τῶν μετεώρων, "ποσταῖος," ἔφη, "πάρει ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. in how many days?

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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