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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

  • δι’ ἅ μοι καὶ μάλιστα δοκοῦσι τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἡγεῖσθαι μέγαν, καὶ τὴν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ νίκην μεγάλην καλεῖν, καὶ τὸν στρατηγήσαντα Πομπήιον μέγαν τῇ ἰδίᾳ φωνῇ μέχρι νῦν ἐπονομάζειν, ἐθνῶν τε πλήθουσ ἕνεκα ὧν ἀνέλαβον ἢ προσέλαβον, καὶ χρόνου μήκουσ, τεσσαρακονταετοῦσ γενομένου, τόλμησ τε αὐτοῦ Μιθριδάτου καὶ φερεπονίασ, δυνατοῦ σφίσιν ἐσ ἅπαντα ὀφθέντοσ, 119. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 17 5:5)

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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