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τριακονθήμερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριακονθήμερος

Structure: τριακονθημερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of thirty days

Examples

  • "θέρουσ γὰρ ὡρ́ᾳ καὶ τριακονθήμερον προσεδρεύοντεσ καὶ οὐδενὸσ μὲν ὁρῶντεσ ἀπεχόμενον ἁλμυροῦ, τὴν κύστιν δ’ αὐτοῦ ἔχοντα συνεπείσθησαν ἀληθεύειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:4)
  • Πένθοσ δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ τοῦ λαοῦ τριακονθήμερον ἄγοντοσ, ἐπεὶ τοῦτ’ ἐλώφησεν, ἀναλαβὼν ἐκεῖθεν Μωυσῆσ τὸν στρατὸν παρῆν ἐπὶ τὸν ποταμὸν Ἀρνῶν’, ὃσ ἐκ τῶν τῆσ Ἀραβίασ ὀρῶν ὡρμημένοσ καὶ διὰ πάσησ ἐρήμου ῥέων εἰσ τὴν Ἀσφαλτῖτιν λίμνην ἐκδίδωσιν ὁρίζων τήν τε Μωαβῖτιν καὶ Ἀμωρῖτιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 109:1)
  • τριακονθήμερον μὴ μεταβαίνειν κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆσ θυσίασ, ἐν ᾗ ποτ’ ἂν χώρᾳ καταληφθῶσιν [οἱ σάλιοι οὗτοι]. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 13 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. of thirty days

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

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