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τετραμοιρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετραμοιρία

Structure: τετραμοιρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from tetra/moiros

Sense

  1. a four-fold portion

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

  • ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ σχεδὸν ἤδη δύο μηνῶν ὄντων ἀφικνεῖται Χαρμῖνόσ τε ὁ Λάκων καὶ Πολύνικοσ παρὰ Θίβρωνοσ, καὶ λέγουσιν ὅτι Λακεδαιμονίοισ δοκεῖ στρατεύεσθαι ἐπὶ Τισσαφέρνην, καὶ Θίβρων ἐκπέπλευκεν ὡσ πολεμήσων, καὶ δεῖται ταύτησ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ καὶ λέγει ὅτι δαρεικὸσ ἑκάστῳ ἔσται μισθὸσ τοῦ μηνόσ, καὶ τοῖσ λοχαγοῖσ διμοιρία, τοῖσ δὲ στρατηγοῖσ τετραμοιρία. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 2:1)
  • καὶ οὓσ μὲν ἂν μαλακοὺσ τῶν ξένων αἰσθάνηται, ἐκβάλλει, οὓσ δ’ ἂν ὁρᾷ φιλοπόνωσ καὶ φιλοκινδύνωσ ἔχοντασ πρὸσ τοὺσ πολέμουσ, τιμᾷ τοὺσ μὲν διμοιρίαισ, τοὺσ δὲ τριμοιρίαισ, τοὺσ δὲ καὶ τετραμοιρίαισ, καὶ ἄλλοισ δώροισ, καὶ νόσων γε θεραπείαισ καὶ περὶ ταφὰσ κόσμῳ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. a four-fold portion

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

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