ἔτη (ete)

ἔτη is an Ancient Greek form of ἔτος, meaning “year”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 1,438 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6.5: … το· τὸ δὲ πάλαι καὶ ἐν τῷ Ὀλυμπικῷ ἀγῶνι διαζώματα ἔχοντες περὶ τὰ αἰδοῖα οἱ ἀθληταὶ ἠγωνίζοντο, καὶ οὐ πολλὰ ἔτη ἐπειδὴ πέπαυται. ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖς βαρβάροις ἔστιν οἷς νῦν, καὶ μάλιστα τοῖς Ἀσιανοῖς, πυγμῆς καὶ πάλης ἆθλα …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 5.19.5: ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ καύματος τε καὶ ἡλικίας ʽἦν γὰρ ἀμφὶ τὰ τριάκοντα ἔτἠ καματηρὸς γενόμενος, πολλὰ δὲ πρόσθεν ξυγκαμών τε καὶ συγκινδυνεύσας Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, ἀναβαινόμενός τε πρὸς μόνου Ἀ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.8: Ἔτη μὲν οὖν εἴκοσιν ἐποίμαινε τῷ πενθερῷ Ἰακώβ· εἶτα ὑποχωρῆσαι θέλων οὐ συγκεχώρητο. ὅθεν καὶ κρύφα μετὰ τῶν γυν …

All forms of ἔτος (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.