ἡμίσεα (hemisea)

ἡμίσεα is an Ancient Greek form of ἥμισυς, meaning “half”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ἡμίσεια, “half”.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.16.1: … κτὸν καὶ μεμαγμένον, δύο χοίνικας ἑκάστῳ Ἀττικὰς ἀλφίτων καὶ δύο κοτύλας οἴνου καὶ κρέας, θεράποντι δὲ τούτων ἡμίσεα· ταῦτα δὲ ὁρώντων τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐσπέμπειν καὶ πλοῖον μηδὲν ἐσπλεῖν λάθρᾳ· φυλάσσειν δὲ καὶ τὴν νῆσον Ἀθηναίους …

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 19: … ʼ τῶν σισʼ ὑπερέχει τοῖς κζʼ, τὰ δὲ σνσʼ τῶν σμγʼ ὑπερέχει τοῖς ιγʼ· ταῦτα δὲ τῶν ὑπεροχῶν ἀμφοτέρων ἐλάττω ἢ ἡμίσεά ἐστι. διὸ δυεῖν τόνων καὶ λείμματος, οὐ δυεῖν καὶ ἡμίσεος, εὕρηται τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἔχει τοιαύτ …

All forms of ἥμισυς (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.