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τριττύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριττύς τριττύος

Structure: τριττυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the number three, a sacrifice of three animals
  2. a third of the

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ φυλῆσ ἑκάστησ ἦσαν νενεμημέναι τριττύεσ μὲν τρεῖσ, ναυκραρίαι δὲ δώδεκα καθ’ ἑκάστην· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 8 3:2)
  • ἦσαν γὰρ ἐκ δ φυλῶν δώδεκα τριττύεσ, ὥστ’ οὐ συνέπιπτεν ἂν ἀναμίσγεσθαι τὸ πλῆθοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 21 3:4)
  • ἐπειδὰν δ’ ἀφέλῃ τισ τοὺσ ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου κεχειροτονημένουσ καὶ τοὺσ κληρωτοὺσ ἄρχοντασ, καταλείπονται οὓσ αἱ φυλαὶ καὶ αἱ τριττύεσ καὶ οἱ δῆμοι ἐξ ἑαυτῶν αἱροῦνται τὰ δημόσια χρήματα διαχειρίζειν. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 301)

Synonyms

  1. the number three

  2. a third of the

Related

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

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