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ποσταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσταῖος ποσταῖη ποσταῖον

Structure: ποσται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/stos

Sense

  1. in how many days?

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ποσταῖος ποσταίᾱ ποσταῖον
Genitive ποσταίου ποσταίᾱς ποσταίου
Dative ποσταίῳ ποσταίᾱͅ ποσταίῳ
Accusative ποσταῖον ποσταίᾱν ποσταῖον
Vocative ποσταῖε ποσταίᾱ ποσταῖον
DualN/A/V ποσταίω ποσταίᾱ ποσταίω
G/D ποσταίοιν ποσταίαιν ποσταίοιν
PluralNominative ποσταῖοι ποσταῖαι ποσταῖα
Genitive ποσταίων ποσταιῶν ποσταίων
Dative ποσταίοις ποσταίαις ποσταίοις
Accusative ποσταίους ποσταίᾱς 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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