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χιλιοστύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χιλιοστύς χιλιοστύος

Structure: χιλιοστυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xi/lioi

Sense

  1. a body of a thousand

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χιλιοστύς χιλιοστύε χιλιοστύες
Genitive χιλιοστύος χιλιοστύοιν χιλιοστύων
Dative χιλιοστύϊ χιλιοστύοιν χιλιοστύσιν*
Accusative χιλιοστύν χιλιοστύε χιλιοστύας
Vocative χιλιοστύ χιλιοστύε χιλιοστύες

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ κατενόησε τὴν ἀγυιὰν τὴν πρὸσ τὸ βασίλειον φέρουσαν στενοτέραν οὖσαν ἢ ὡσ ἐπὶ μετώπου πάντασ διιέναι, παραγγείλασ τὴν πρώτην χιλιοστὺν ἕπεσθαι κατὰ χώραν, τὴν δὲ δευτέραν κατ’ οὐρὰν ταύτησ ἀκολουθεῖν, καὶ διὰ παντὸσ οὕτωσ, αὐτὸσ μὲν ἡγεῖτο οὐκ ἀναπαυόμενοσ, αἱ δ’ ἄλλαι χιλιοστύεσ κατ’ οὐρὰν ἑκάστη τῆσ ἔμπροσθεν εἵποντο. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a body of a thousand

Similar forms

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

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