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Πιερία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πιερία

Structure: Πιερι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Pieria

Declension

First 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

  • ἦν δὲ Πύθησ ἀνὴρ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἐμφανήσ, γυναῖκα μὲν ἔχων Ιἀπυγίαν, θυγατέρα δὲ Πιερίαν. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 4)
  • ἦν δὲ Πύθησ ἀνὴρ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἐμφανήσ, γυναῖκα μὲν ἔχων Ιἀπυγίαν, θυγατέρα δὲ Πιερίαν. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1:3)
  • εὑρ͂ε δὲ Ὀρφεὺσ καὶ τὰ Διονύσου μυστήρια, καὶ τέθαπται περὶ τὴν Πιερίαν διασπασθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν μαινάδων. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 3 2:5)
  • οὗτοσ ἐν σπαργάνοισ ἐπὶ τοῦ λίκνου κείμενοσ, ἐκδὺσ εἰσ Πιερίαν παραγίνεται, καὶ κλέπτει βόασ ἃσ ἔνεμεν Ἀπόλλων. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 3:2)
  • τῷ δὲ Ὀξύλῳ Πιερίαν μὲν τῇ γυναικὶ ὄνομα εἶναι λέγουσι, πέρα δὲ τὰ ἐσ αὐτὴν οὐ μνημονεύουσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 6:1)

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

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