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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative τριταῖος τριταίᾱ τριταῖον
Genitive τριταίου τριταίᾱς τριταίου
Dative τριταίῳ τριταίᾱͅ τριταίῳ
Accusative τριταῖον τριταίᾱν τριταῖον
Vocative τριταῖε τριταίᾱ τριταῖον
DualN/A/V τριταίω τριταίᾱ τριταίω
G/D τριταίοιν τριταίαιν τριταίοιν
PluralNominative τριταῖοι τριταῖαι τριταῖα
Genitive τριταίων τριταιῶν τριταίων
Dative τριταίοις τριταίαις τριταίοις
Accusative τριταίους τριταίᾱς τριταῖα
Vocative τριταῖοι τριταῖαι τριταῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective τριταῖος τριταίου τριταιώτερος τριταιωτέρου τριταιώτατος τριταιωτάτου
Adverb τριταίως τριταιώτερον τριταιώτατα

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

  • Ἐμβάλλειν δὲ χρὴ αὐθημερὸν, ἢ τῇ ὑστεραίῃ, τριταίῳ δὲ ἢ τεταρταίῳ ἥκιστα‧ τεταρταῖα γὰρ ἐόντα, ἐπισημαίνει τῇσι παλιγκοτίῃσι μάλιστα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 67.4)
  • προελθόντι δέ οἱ στάδια οὐ πολλὰ πυρετόσ τε ἀπὸ τοῦ τραύματοσ καὶ ἡ τελευτὴ τριταίῳ συνέβη· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 16:2)
  • ἔκαμνον γὰρ τριταίῳ οἱῴ βαρυτάτῳ καὶ ὁρῶ Λυσίαν τὸν ῥήτορα, νεανίσκον οὐκ ἄχαριν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:14)

Synonyms

  1. lasting three days

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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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