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τεσσαρακοστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεσσαρακοστός τεσσαρακοστή τεσσαρακοστόν

Structure: τεσσαρακοστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fortieth
  2. a fortieth

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Στρατηγοὺσ δὲ Ἰβηρίασ ἐτησίουσ ἐσ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ εἰλημμένα ἔπεμπον ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἀρξάμενοι, μικρὸν πρὸ τῆσ τετάρτησ καὶ τεσσαρακοστῆσ καὶ ἑκατοστῆσ ὀλυμπιάδοσ, ἁρμοστὰσ ἢ ἐπιστάτασ αὐτοῖσ τῆσ εἰρήνησ ἐσομένουσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 4:1)
  • Σωσικράτησ δέ φησι πρότερον Κροίσου τελευτῆσαι αὐτὸν ἔτεσι τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑνί, πρὸ τῆσ τεσσαρακοστῆσ ἐνάτησ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , 2:5)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ αἱ βύβλοι τρεῖσ, ἀπὸ τῆσ μιᾶσ τεσσαρακοστῆσ ἄχρι τῆσ τρίτησ καὶ τεσσαρακοστῆσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 70 13:3)
  • τῆσ δὲ τεσσαρακοστῆσ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ καὶ ὀγδόησ, ἣν Γλαυκίασ ὁ Κροτωνιάτησ ἐνίκησε, ταύτησ ἔτει τρίτῳ ἆθλα ἔθεσαν οἱ Ἀμφικτύονεσ κιθαρῳδίασ μὲν καθὰ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ, προσέθεσαν δὲ καὶ αὐλῳδίασ ἀγώνισμα καὶ αὐλῶν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 7:1)

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

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