years

ἔτος, ους, τό (Hom.+) year Ac 7:30; 13:21; Hb 1:12 (Ps 101:28); 3:10, 17 (Ps 94:10); 2 Pt 3:8 (Ps 89:4); Rv 20:3–7; 1 Cl 25:5 al.—ἔτη ἔχειν be x years old (Jos., Ant. 1, 198) J 8:57; differently w. the addition ἐν τ. ἀσθενείᾳ αὐτοῦ be ill for x years 5:5 (cp. TestJob 26:1 ἐν ταῖς πληγαῖς). εἶναι, γίνεσθαι ἐτῶν w. a numeral to indicate age (X., Mem. 1, 2, 40 al.; Gen 7:6; 12:4 and oft.; Demetr.: 722 Fgm. 1, 1 al. Jac.; Jos., Ant. 10, 50) Mk 5:42; Lk 2:42; Ac 4:22; 1 Ti 5:9 (Cyr. Ins. 16 μηδένα νεώτερον πέντε κ. εἴκοσι ἐτῶν); ὡς or ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν w. numeral about x years old (X., An. 2, 6, 20 ἦν ἐτῶν ὡς τριάκοντα; PTebt 381, 4f [123 B.C.]; s. Dssm. in PMeyer, Griech. Texte aus Ägypt. 1916, p. 26, 48; for use of round numbers s. Meyer 47, no. 7, 5 and 7; 67, no. 12, 12) Lk 3:23; 8:42; GJs 12:3.—Acc. to denote duration of time in answer to the quest.: how long? (X., Cyr. 1, 2, 9; SIG 1168: 3, 8, 14, 95; SIG² 847, 4; 850, 6 al.; 2 Km 21:1; EpJer 2; Jdth 8:4; 1 Macc 1:7, 9 al.; Demetr.: 722 Fgm. 1, 6 Jac.; Just., D. 88, 2) δώδεκα ἔτη for twelve years Mt 9:20; cp. Mk 5:25; Lk 2:36; 13:7f, 11, 16; 15:29; Ac 7:6 (Gen 15:13), 36, 42 (Am 5:25); B 10:6; MPol 9:3 al. The dat. is also used in almost the same sense (Appian, Illyr. 25 §71 ἔτεσι δέκα=for ten years; Polyaenus 1, 12; Lucian, Dial. Meretr. 8, 2 et al.; SIG 872, 17; 898, 28; 966, 17; ins concerning a Lycaon. bishop [Exp. 7th ser., 6, 1908, 387, 12] εἴκοσι πέντε ὅλοις ἔτεσιν τ. ἐπισκοπὴν διοικήσας; B-D-F §201; Rob. 523) of the temple τεσσεράκοντα καὶ ἓξ ἔτεσιν οἰκοδομήθη it was under construction for forty-six years J 2:20; cp. Ac 13:20. Likew. ἐπί w. acc. (SIG 1219, 27 ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτη; Mitt-Wilck. 327, 16 [107 B.C.]; Jos., Ant. 5, 211) Lk 4:25; Ac 19:10.—Other prep. combinations: ἀπὸ (SIG 762, 14; 820, 8) ἐτῶν δώδεκα for twelve years Lk 8:43; ἀπὸ πολλῶν ἐ. Ro 15:23. Also ἐκ πολλῶν ἐ. Ac 24:10; cp. 9:33. διʼ ἐ. πλειόνων after several years 24:17; cp. Gal 2:1. εἰς ἔ. πολλά for many years to come Lk 12:19 (cp. SIG 707, 19f; 708, 43). ἐν ἔτει πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ 3:1 (cp. SIG 736: 11, 52, 54, 90; 3 Km 6:1; 15:1 al.). ἕως ἐτῶν … until x years of age (cp. Jo 2:2; Jos., Ant. 5, 181) Lk 2:37. κατʼ ἔτος every year (GDI 4195, 30f [Rhodes]; PAmh 86, 11 [78 A.D.]; POxy 725, 36; 2 Macc 11:3; Jos., Ant. 7, 99) 2:41; μετὰ τρία ἔ. after three years Gal 1:18; 3:17 (cp. SIG 708, 26; Tob 14:2 BA; Is 23:15; Da 4:33a; 1 Macc 1:29; Tat. 31, 3). πρὸ ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων fourteen years ago 2 Cor 12:2 (as Just., A I, 46, 1). χιλιάδα τινὰ … ἐτῶν Papias (2:12). fourteen years ago.—B. 1011f. DELG. M-M.

ἑξέτεα, ἑξέτης

six years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (epic ionic)

ἑξέτεα, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem acc sg (epic ionic)

ἑξέτει, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑξέτει, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑξέτεϊ, ἑξέτης

six years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑξέτεε, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (epic ionic)

ἑξέτεα, ἑξέτης

six years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (epic ionic)

ἑξέτεα, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem acc sg (epic ionic)

ἑξέτει, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑξέτει, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑξέτεϊ, ἑξέτης

six years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑξέτεε, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (epic ionic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑπταέτεϊ, ἑπταέτης

seven years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑπταέτεϊ, ἑπταετής

seven years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑπταέτεϊ, ἑπταέτης

seven years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (attic epic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut dat sg

ἑπταέτεϊ, ἑπταετής

seven years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (doric aeolic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem acc sg (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (doric aeolic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem acc sg (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (doric aeolic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem acc sg (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (doric aeolic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem acc sg (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem nom /voc pl (doric aeolic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem nom sg

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem nom /voc pl (doric aeolic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem nom sg

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem nom /voc pl (doric aeolic)

ἑπταέτης

seven years old: masc /fem nom sg

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem acc pl (attic epic doric)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem nom /voc pl (doric aeolic)

ἑπταετής

seven years old: masc /fem nom sg

παλαιά, παλαιός

old in years: neut nom /voc /acc pl

παλαιά̱, παλαιός

old in years: fem nom /voc /acc dual

παλαιά̱, παλαιός

old in years: fem nom /voc sg (attic doric aeolic)

παλαιέ, παλαιός

old in years: masc voc sg

παλαιαί, παλαιός

old in years: fem nom /voc pl

τρῐέτ-ης, ες, or [full] τριετής, ές, ([etym.] ἔτος)

A of or for three years,

τριέτεα χρόνον Hdt.1.199

;

τ. φορά IG42(1).121.9

(Epid., iv B. C.);

πλέον ἢ τ. ἐγένευ φίλος Theoc.29.17

, cf. BCH48.518 ([place name] Palestine);

τ. προθεσμία Pl.Lg. 954d

(in 793d τρι' ἔτη is restored by Bekker): τρίετες as Adv., for three years, Od.2.106, 13.377.

2 three years old,

ἵππος Arist.HA 545b13

;

παιδίον Artem. 4.39

: τρίετες, τό, the age of three years,

ἀπὸ τριέτους μέχρι τῶν ἓξ ἐτῶν Pl.Lg. 794a

, cf. Arist.HA 545b3:—fem. [suff] τρῐετ-έτις, Supp.Epigr.6.125 ([place name] Cotiaeum).

II recurring every three years,

κῶμος Orph.H.53.5

.

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `year' (Il.);

Other forms: dial. Ϝέτος.

Dialectal forms: Myk. we-to (acc.), we-te-i (dat.)

Compounds: Oft as 2. member, e. g. τρι-ετής ( τρι-έτης) `three-year old' (Ion.-Att.) with τριετία `space of three years' (hell.), τριετίζω `be three years old' (LXX); also τρι-έτ-ηρος `three years old' (Call.) with - ηρίς f. `every third year (incluve)', i. e. `all two years returning' ( ἑορτη; Pi., Ion.-Att.; after the nouns in - ηρός, - ηρίς; Schwyzer 482, Chantraine Formation 346); from it τριετηρικός `belonging to a τριετηρίς' (late).

Derivatives: ἔτειος `jearly, lasting the whole year, one year long' (Pi., A.); through hypostasis ἐπέτειος `id.' (Ion.-Att., of ἐπ' ἔτος; cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 473); ἐτήσιος `id.' (Att.; after the adj. in - τήσιος; Schwyzer 466, Chantraine 42) with ἐτησίαι m. pl. `wind of the year' (Ion.-Att., Arist.); also ἐπετήσιος `id.' (η 118, Th.); ἐπηετανός, s. v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1175] u̯etos `year'

Etymology: Old word for `year', preserved in several languages. An exact agreement in Alb. vit, pl. (also sg.) vjet `year', from IE *u̯etes- (Mann Lang. 26, 383). As 2. member the neutral s-stem is preserved in zero grade in Skt. tri-vats-á- `of three years'; the full grade is supposed in Messap. atavetes (= αὑτό-ετες, `in the same year'?; Schwyzer 513 n. 3) and in Hitt. ša-u̯itiš-t- `nurseling' (prop. t-abstract *"of the same year"?; s. Kronasser Vgl. Laut- und Formenlehre 53 and 130). Beside it Hitt. has a consonant-stem u̯itt- (= u̯et-) `year', s. Kronasser 126 A. 20. A rebuilding into an a-stem perhaps in Hier.-Hitt. usa-, Luw. ušša- `year' (\< IE *u̯et-o-?) ; Kronasser Μνήμης χάριν 1, 201. A semantic problem gives Lat. vetus `old', formally = Ϝέτος; for the explanation s. W.-Hofmann s. vetus, and Benveniste Rev. de phil. 74, 124ff. - Old enlargements of the s-stem are found in words for (one-year old) animals: Skt. vats-á- `calf', Alb. vic̣ `calf' (IE *u̯etes-o-), Celt., e. g. Ir. feis `swine' (\< *u̯ets-i-). - On itself stands a Balto-Slavic word for `old', Lith. vẽtušas, OCS vetъchъ, IE *u̯etus-o- (here also Lat. vetus?); cf. Ernout-Meillet s. v. (where the Balto-Slavic adjectiv on insufficient grounds is separated from the word for `year'). - A new name for year in Greek is ἐνιαυτός, s. v. S. also ἔταλον, νέωτα, οἰετέας, πέρυσι, σῆτες. Further s. W.-Hofmann s. vetus.

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διετία, ας, ἡ (s. prec. entry; Cleomedes [II A.D.] I, 3; IMagn-Mai 164, 12; SIG and OGI ind.; oft. pap, e.g. POxy 707, 24; BGU 180, 7; also see Preis.; Graec. Venet. Gen 41:1 and 45:5; Philo, In Flacc. 128.—Joseph. does not have δ., but ἑπταετία [Ant. 1, 302])

① a span of two years, two years διετίας πληρωθείσης when two years had elapsed Ac 24:27 (on this s. Beginn. V 465f; 471 n. 1: it is difficult to establish whether δ. refers to Paul or Felix); δ. ὅλην he stayed two full years 28:30. For another view on these Ac pass. s. 2 below.—Mt 2:16 D; GJs 22:1 pap πάντα τὰ βρέφη ἀπὸ διετίας καὶ κάτω all infants two years old and under.

② a two-year period of limitation, biennium, legal and administrative t.t. (=Lat. biennium). It has been argued (s. Beginn. V, 326–36 [citing esp. KLake, TT 47, 1913, 356ff, on the juridical aspects of a period of limitation on capital cases; for earlier lit. on Luke’s alleged legal interests s. ibid. 298, n. 4]; s. also HTajra, The Trial of St. Paul ’89, 132; 193–96) that after a two-year period of limitation had run out (διετίας πληρωθείσης) Paul’s case would have been dismissed. But s. above and BAFCS III 322f.—DELG s.v. ἔτος. M-M.

δωδεκαετής, ες pert. to a period of time lasting twelve years, twelve years (1 Esdr 5:41; Jos., Ant. 15, 9, 6 [341] ‘within twelve years’; Plut.) twelve years old γενομένης δὲ δωδεκαετοῦς (for ιβ´ ἐτοῦς pap) when she (Mary) was twelve years old GJs 8:2 (As read by Tdf., s. his and deStrycker’s app.)—DELG s.v. δώδεκα.

δεκαετίᾱ, δεκαετία

space of ten years: fem nom /voc /acc dual

δεκαετίᾱ, δεκαετία

space of ten years: fem nom /voc sg (attic doric aeolic)

δεκαετίαι, δεκαετία

space of ten years: fem nom /voc pl

δεκαετίᾱͅ, δεκαετία

space of ten years: fem dat sg (attic doric aeolic)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: neut nom /voc /acc pl (attic epic doric)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (doric aeolic)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc /fem acc sg (attic epic doric)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc voc sg

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc /fem acc pl (attic epic doric)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc /fem nom /voc pl (doric aeolic)

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc /fem nom sg

δεκέτης

lasting ten years: masc nom sg

ἑξετέα, ἑξέτης

six years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (epic ionic)

ἑξετέα, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem acc sg (epic ionic)

ἑξετέϊ, ἑξέτης

six years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑξετέε, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (epic ionic)

ἑξετέα, ἑξέτης

six years old: neut nom /voc /acc pl (epic ionic)

ἑξετέα, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem acc sg (epic ionic)

ἑξετέϊ, ἑξέτης

six years old: dat sg (epic)

ἑξετέε, ἑξέτης

six years old: masc /fem /neut nom /voc /acc dual (epic ionic)

ἑπταετίᾱ, ἑπταετία

age of seven years: fem nom /voc /acc dual

ἑπταετίᾱ, ἑπταετία

age of seven years: fem nom /voc sg (attic doric aeolic)

ἑπταετίαι, ἑπταετία

age of seven years: fem nom /voc pl

ἑπταετίᾱͅ, ἑπταετία

age of seven years: fem dat sg (attic doric aeolic)