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τετράμηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράμηνος τετράμηνον

Structure: τετραμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh/n

Sense

  1. of four months, lasting four months

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν θηλυκῶν ἐν διμήνῳ διαρθροῦσθαι ἐν τετραμήνῳ δὲ τελειοῦσθαι διὰ ἐνδεῖν τοῦ θερμοῦ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2:4)
  • μετασχόντα τοῦ δόγματοσ τοῖσ Ἀχαιοῖσ, ἐν ᾧ τετραμήνῳ πρότερον τῆσ Ῥωμαίων διαβάσεωσ Ἀντιόχῳ καὶ τοῖσ Αἰτωλοῖσ τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ χώρασ πόλεμον ἐξήνεγκαν, τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων σχεδὸν ἁπάντων ἀπηλλοτριωμένων τῆσ Ῥωμαίων φιλίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 39, chapter 3 8:1)

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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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