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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: hebdomagenês 2: trisseuô 3: alitêmeros 4: g 5: tricha
Latin1: diatritus 2: comperendinatio 3: comperendinus 4: nudiustertianus 5: sesquitertius
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Tri_to-geneia, hê, (gignomai) Trito-born, a name of Athena, Hom. Il. 4.515, au=Hom. Il. 8.39, Hom. Od. 3.378, Hes. Th. 895,au=Hes. Th. 924, IG14.1389ii 1. (Variously expld. in antiquity, from the lake Tritônis in Libya, from which an old legend represents the goddess to have been born, Eur. Ion 872 (anap.), cf. Hdt. 4.180; or from Triton, a torrent in Boeotia, Paus. 9.33.7, cf. Apollod. 1.3.6; or from a spring in Arcadia, Paus. 8.26.6; or from tritô, Aeol. word for kephalê (Sch.Aristoph. Cl. 985, Tz.ad Lyc.519; Athamanian acc. to Nic.(Fr.145) ap.Hsch.), i.e. head-born; or, born on the third day of the month, Ister 26 (the 23rd, tritêi phthinontos, Sch.BT Hom. Il. 8.39); or, the third child after Apollo and Artemis, Suid. s.v. tritogenês; or, as representing Nature, born thrice in the year, D.S.1.12; or because she was author of the three main bonds of social life, Democr.1b,au=Democr. 1b2=lr.)

II. the Pythagoreans gave the name Athêna t. to the equilateral triangle, Plu.2.381e; cf. treis, trias.