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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

  • εἰσ πηγὴν ἐν τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ ὄρει ταῖσ Προύσησ Νύμφαισ ὑποείκομεν ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐταὶ κρέσσονεσ ἡμείων χαίρετε Πυθιάδεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6761)

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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