τρίτον (triton)

τρίτον is an Ancient Greek form of τρίτος, meaning “third”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 1,005 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.777: αἰθαλέοι πρηστῆρες. ἀτὰρ τρίτον εἰσαφίκανεν

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.23: Τρίτον ἦλθε διαλλαξων Δίωνα Διονυσίῳ· οὐ τυχὼν δὲ ἄπρακτος ἐπανῆλθεν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα. ἔνθα πολιτείας μὲν οὐχ ἥψατο, …

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians frag_3.3: τριττύς ἐστι τὸ τριτον μέρος τῆς φυλῆς· αὕτη γὰρ διῄρηται εἰς τρία μέρη, τριττῦς καὶ ἔθνη καὶ φατρίας, ὥς φησιν Ἀ. ἐν τῇ Ἀθ. πολ.

All forms of τρίτος (declension 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.