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τετραετία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετραετία

Structure: τετραετι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from tetraeth/s

Sense

  1. a term of four years

Declension

First 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

  • ἐψηφίσθη δὲ αὐτῷ τὰσ ἐπαρχίασ ἔχειν εἰσ ἄλλην τετραετίαν, καὶ χίλια τάλαντα λαμβάνειν καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτόν, ἀφ’ ὧν θρέψει καὶ διοικήσει τὸ στρατιωτικόν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 55 7:2)
  • οὐδ’ ἂν ἀπαυδήσωμεν ἐνταῦθα, κωλύει τισ πάλιν ἀγωνίζεσθαι οὐδὲ δεῖ περιμεῖναι τετραετίαν ἄλλην, ἵν’ ἔλθῃ ἄλλα Ὀλύμπια, ἀλλ’ εὐθὺσ ἀναλαβόντι καὶ ἀνακτησαμένῳ ἑαυτὸν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν εἰσφέροντι προθυμίαν ἔξεστιν ἀγωνίζεσθαι· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a term of four years

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

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