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Πυθιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθιάς Πυθιάδος

Structure: Πυθιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pecul. fem. of Pu/qios

Sense

  1. the Pythian priestess
  2. the celebration of the Pythian games
  3. a sacred mission, to Pytho or Delphi

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πυθιάς Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδες
Genitive Πυθιάδος Πυθιάδοιν Πυθιάδων
Dative Πυθιάδι Πυθιάδοιν Πυθιάσιν*
Accusative Πυθιάδα Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδας
Vocative Πυθιά Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδες

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

  • Ταραντῖνοσ Εὐάγγελοσ τοὔνομα τῶν οὐκ ἀφανῶν ἐν τῷ Τάραντι ἐπεθύμησεν νικῆσαι Πύθια. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:2)
  • πρόσπολοι, διωκόμεσθα θανασίμουσ ἐπὶ σφαγάσ, Πυθίᾳ ψήφῳ κρατηθεῖσ’, ἔκδοτοσ δὲ γίγνομαι. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees1)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθία εἴρηκέ τισι Διόνυσον ὑγιάτην καλεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 2 4:2)
  • καὶ ἡ Πυθία ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 18 2:3)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθία προέφερεν αἰεὶ τοῖσ Λακεδαιμονίοισ χρηστηριαζομένοισ ἐλευθεροῦν τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, εἰσ τοῦθ’ ἑώσ προύτρεψε τοὺσ Σπαρτιάτασ, καίπερ ὄντων ξένων αὐτοῖσ τῶν Πεισιστρατιδῶν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 19 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythian priestess

  2. the celebration of the Pythian games

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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