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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

  • πολλοὶ δέ εἰσιν οἳ καὶ προστεθῆναι τούτουσ ὑπὸ Νομᾶ τοὺσ μῆνασ λέγουσι, τόν τε Ιἀνουάριον καὶ τὸν Φεβρουάριον, ἐξ ἀρχῆσ δὲ χρῆσθαι δέκα μόνον εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, ὡσ ἔνιοι τῶν βαρβάρων τρισί, καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων Ἀρκάδεσ μὲν τέσσαρσιν, ἓξ δὲ Ἀκαρνᾶνεσ, Αἰγυπτίοισ δὲ μηνιαῖοσ ἦν ὁ ἐνιαυτόσ, εἶτα τετράμηνοσ, ὥσ φασι. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 18 3:3)
  • οὐχ ὑμεῖσ λέγετε ὅτι Ἔτι τετράμηνόσ ἐστιν καὶ ὁ θερισμὸσ ἔρχεται; (, chapter 1 160:1)

Related

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

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