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τέμνεται (temnetai)

τέμνεται is an Ancient Greek form of τέμνω, meaning “cut; ravage”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 18: … , διπλασιασθέντων δʼ ἀμφοτέρων ὁ παρεμπίπτων μεταξὺ δύο ποιεῖ διαστήματα δῆλον ὅτι τούτων μὲν ἴσων ὄντων δίχα τέμνεται τὸ ἐπόγδοον. ἀλλὰ μὴν διπλάσια γίγνεται τῶν μὲν θʼ τὰ ιηʼ τῶν δʼ ηʼ τὰ ισʼ, δέχονται δʼ οὗτοι μεταξὺ τὰ ιζʼ κ …

All forms of τέμνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.