τρίτος

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Ancient GreekEdit

Ancient Greek ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : τρεῖς (treîs)     Ordinal : τρίτος (trítos)     Adverbial : τριάκις (triákis)

EtymologyEdit

From τρι- (tri-), the stem of τρεῖς (treîs, “three”), -τος (-tos, adjective suffix).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.tos/ → /ˈtri.tos/ → /ˈtri.tos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.tos/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.tos/

AdjectiveEdit

τρῐ́τος • (trítos) m (feminine τρῐ́τη, neuter τρῐ́τον); first/second declension

1. (ordinal) third

DeclensionEdit

Declension of τρῐ́τος; τρῐ́τη; τρῐ́τον

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		τρῐ́τος	τρῐ́τη	τρῐ́τον		τρῐ́τω	τρῐ́τᾱ	τρῐ́τω		τρῐ́τοι	τρῐ́ται	τρῐ́τᾰ
Genitive		τρῐ́του	τρῐ́της	τρῐ́του		τρῐ́τοιν	τρῐ́ταιν	τρῐ́τοιν		τρῐ́των	τρῐ́των	τρῐ́των
Dative		τρῐ́τῳ	τρῐ́τῃ	τρῐ́τῳ		τρῐ́τοιν	τρῐ́ταιν	τρῐ́τοιν		τρῐ́τοις	τρῐ́ταις	τρῐ́τοις
Accusative		τρῐ́τον	τρῐ́την	τρῐ́τον		τρῐ́τω	τρῐ́τᾱ	τρῐ́τω		τρῐ́τους	τρῐ́τᾱς	τρῐ́τᾰ
Vocative		τρῐ́τε	τρῐ́τη	τρῐ́τον		τρῐ́τω	τρῐ́τᾱ	τρῐ́τω		τρῐ́τοι	τρῐ́ται	τρῐ́τᾰ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		τρῐ́τως				τρῐτώτερος				τρῐτώτᾰτος
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ReferencesEdit

• τρίτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τρίτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τρίτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τρίτος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τρίτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τρίτος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5154”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • third idem, page 867.

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GreekEdit

AdjectiveEdit

τρίτος • (trítos) m (feminine τρίτη, neuter τρίτο)

1. (ordinal) third

   ο τρίτος δρόμος ― o trítos drómos ― the third way

DeclensionEdit

positive forms of τρίτος

number  case / gender	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	τρίτος	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτοι	τρίτες	τρίτα
genitive	τρίτου	τρίτης	τρίτου	τρίτων	τρίτων	τρίτων
accusative	τρίτο	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτους	τρίτες	τρίτα
vocative	τρίτε	τρίτη	τρίτο	τρίτοι	τρίτες	τρίτα

Related termsEdit

• (abbreviation): 3ος (3os)
• and see: τρία (tría, “three”)

See alsoEdit

• Greek number and measurement