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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

  • Καὶ μὴν οἶσθά με τῷ Πυθίῳ λειτουργοῦντα πολλὰσ Πυθιάδασ· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 17 3:1)
  • Σακάδασ μὲν γὰρ τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν τεθέντα ὑπὸ Ἀμφικτυόνων οὐκ ὄντα πω στεφανίτην καὶ ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ στεφανίτασ δύο ἐνίκησε, Πυθόκριτοσ δὲ ὁ Σικυώνιοσ τὰσ ἐφεξῆσ τούτων πυθιάδασ ἕξ, μόνοσ δὴ οὗτοσ αὐλητήσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 16:1)
  • Σακάδασ οὗτοσ καὶ ἄλλασ δύο τὰσ ἐφεξῆσ ταύτησ πυθιάδασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 8:1)

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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