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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

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴσ αἰζηὸσ ἕποιτο ἄρτον δειπνήσασ τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμον, ὃσ ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κ’ αὔλακ’ ἐλαύνοι, μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθ’ ὁμήλικασ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ θυμὸν ἔχων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:18)
  • εἰσ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ πατέρα ἔνθ’ ἑκατονταέτησ, ζωῆσ βροτέησ καθύπερθε, πνεύματι καὶ θώκῳ τεσσαρακονταέτησ, μείλιχοσ, ἡδυεπήσ, λαμπρὸσ Τριάδοσ ὑποφήτησ, νήδυμον ὕπνον ἔχω, Γρηγορίοιο δέμασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 121)

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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