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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

  • τηρεῖ δ’ οὗτοσ τάσ τε κλεῖσ τὰσ τῶν ἱερῶν, ἐν οἷσ τὰ χρήματ’ ἐστὶν καὶ <τὰ> γράμματα τῇ πόλει, καὶ τὴν δημοσίαν σφραγῖδα, καὶ μένειν ἀναγκαῖον ἐν τῇ θόλῳ τοῦτόν ἐστιν καὶ τριττὺν τῶν πρυτάνεων ἣν ἂν οὗτοσ κελεύῃ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 44 1:3)
  • τὸν δὲ ταξίαρχον ἕκαστον, ὃν ἂν ἡ φυλὴ τόπον λάχῃ, διελεῖν τρίχα καὶ τὰσ ναῦσ ὡσαύτωσ, εἶτ’ ἐπικληρῶσαι τὰσ τριττῦσ, ὅπωσ ἂν τῶν μὲν ὅλων νεωρίων ἓν ἑκάστῃ μέροσ ᾖ τῶν φυλῶν, τοῦ δὲ μέρουσ ἑκάστου τὸ τρίτον μέροσ ἡ τριττὺσ ἔχῃ, εἰδῆτε δ’, ἄν τι δέῃ, πρῶτον μὲν τὴν φυλήν, ὅπου τέτακται, μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ τὴν τριττύν, εἶτα τριήραρχοι τίνεσ καὶ τριήρεισ ποῖαι, καὶ τριάκοντα μὲν ἡ φυλή, δέκα δ’ ἡ τριττὺσ ἑκάστη τριήρεισ ἔχῃ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 26:1)

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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