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Δρυάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Δρυάς Δρυάδος

Structure: Δρυαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: dru=s

Sense

  1. a Dryad

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Δρυάς Δρυάδε Δρυάδες
Genitive Δρυάδος Δρυάδοιν Δρυάδων
Dative Δρυάδι Δρυάδοιν Δρυάσιν*
Accusative Δρυάδα Δρυάδε Δρυάδας
Vocative Δρυά Δρυάδε Δρυάδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ Φρύγεσ μὲν οἰκειούμενοι Μίδα μητέρα τοῦ βασιλέωσ γενέσθαι φασί, Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ νύμφην δρυάδα Φαύνῳ συνοικήσασαν, Ἕλληνεσ δὲ τῶν Διονύσου μητέρων τὴν ἄρρητον. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 9 3:2)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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