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τεσσαρακονταετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεσσαρακονταετής τεσσαρακονταετές

Structure: τεσσαρακονταετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. forty years old

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

  • πολλῶν δὲ λεχθέντων εἰσ ἀμφότερα τὰ μέρη λόγων ἐνίκησεν ἡ σπένδεσθαι παραινοῦσα τὸν πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ πόλεμον γνώμη, γίνονταί τ’ ἀνοχαὶ τοῦ πολέμου πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ τεσσαρακονταετεῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 36 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. forty years old

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

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