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τριταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριταῖος τριταῖη τριταῖον

Structure: τριται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tri/tos

Sense

  1. on the third day, three days before, three days, a tertian fever
  2. lasting three days

Examples

  • Ἢν δὲ καὶ παλαιοτέρου ἐόντοσ τοῦ νουσήματοσ, ἢ τριταίου ἢ τεταρταίου, τὸ πρόσωπον τοιοῦτον ᾖ, περὶ τουτέων ἐπανε ρέσθαι, περὶ ὧν καὶ πρότερον ἐκέλευσα, καὶ τἄλλα σημεῖα σκέπτεσθαι, τά τε ἐν τῷ ξύμπαντι προσώπῳ, τά τε ἐν τῷ σώματι, καὶ τὰ ἐν τοῖσιν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 2.7)
  • χρόνον δὲ οὐ μετὰ πολὺν Ἀριστόδημοσ Μεγαλοπολίταισ ἀνέφυ τύραννοσ, Φιγαλεὺσ μὲν γένοσ καὶ υἱὸσ Ἀρτύλα, ποιησαμένου δὲ αὐτὸν Τριταίου τῶν οὐκ ἀδυνάτων ἐν Μεγάλῃ πόλει· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. lasting three days

Related

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

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