Τριακοντούτης

thirty-year

Translated by David Whitehead18 May 2011Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 36 words

[sc. An adjective] accented on the penultimate syllable. It is common of [= to] both the genders. And the plural [is] triakontou/teis. And in Thucydides 'thirty-year peace-terms' are mentioned.¹ And Aristophanes [sc. also uses the word].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τριακοντούτης· παροξυτονεῖται. κοινὸν δέ ἐστιν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν γενῶν. καὶ τὰ πλήθη τριακοντούτεις. καὶ παρὰ Θουκυδίδῃ τριακοντούτεις σπονδαὶ εἴρηνται. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης.

Betacode

*triakontou/ths: parocutonei=tai. koino\n de/ e)stin a)mfote/rwn tw=n genw=n. kai\ ta\ plh/qh triakontou/teis. kai\ para\ *qoukudi/dh| triakontou/teis spondai\ ei)/rhntai. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs.

Notes (2)

Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius tau436 Theodoridis.
cf. generally tau 939.
1Adler cites Thuc. 1.23.4. Add 1.115.1, 2.2.1, 5.14.4. This phrase illustrates the use of the adjective with a feminine noun. ↩
2Adler cites Aristophanes, Knights 1388-89. In fact, both there and already in Acharnians 251-2, he uses the variant form triakontou=tis (in the accusative plural triakontou/tidas). ↩

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τ939Τριακονταετήςthirty years old; thirty years longIn reference to ages [this adjective] has an acute accent [sc. on the final syllable], like e)nnaeth\s a)/nqrwpos ["a nine-year-old person"]; but in reference to periods of time it has a grave accent, like e)nnae/ths…

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τ939Τριακονταετήςthirty years old; thirty years long τ940Τριακοντόπους βόθροςthirty-foot trench τ941Τριακοντούτηςthirty-year τ942Τριάριοιtried-and-tested, veterans, old guard τ943Τρία ΣτησιχόρουStesichoros' three, Stesichorus' three

Revision history5 revisions · last 23 Jan 2014

23 Jan 2014expanded notes — Catharine Roth
15 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
15 Aug 2011Revised — David Whitehead
23 May 2011x-ref — David Whitehead
23 May 2011cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
18 May 2011Translated — David Whitehead

Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

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