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Ἑστιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑστιάς Ἑστιάδος

Structure: Ἑστιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E(sti/a

Sense

  1. a Vestal virgin

Declension

Third declension

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

  • τὴν δὲ πέμπτην ταῖσ φυλαττούσαισ τὸ ἱερὸν πῦρ παρθένοισ, αἳ καλοῦνται πρὸσ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ θεᾶσ ἣν θεραπεύουσιν ἑστιάδεσ, αὐτὸσ πρῶτοσ ἱερὸν ἱδρυσάμενοσ Ῥωμαίοισ Ἑστίασ καὶ παρθένουσ ἀποδείξασ αὐτῇ θυηπόλουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 64 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Vestal virgin

Related

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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