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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

  • τέτρασι δ’ ἔμπετεσ ὑψόθεν σωμάτεσσι κακὰ φρονέων, τοῖσ οὔτε νόστοσ ὁμῶσ ἔπαλπνοσ ἐν Πυθιάδι κρίθη, οὐδὲ μολόντων πὰρ ματέρ’ ἀμφὶ γέλωσ γλυκὺσ ὦρσεν χάριν· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 8 24:1)
  • ἱλήκοισ ἡρ́ωσ ἄμμι Νεοπτόλεμε, ὄλβιε, Πυθιάδι νῦν χθονὶ κευθόμενε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 485 2:1)
  • δευτέρᾳ δὲ πυθιάδι οὐκ ἐπὶ ἄθλοισ ἐκάλεσαν ἔτι ἀγωνίζεσθαι, στεφανίτην δὲ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἀπὸ τούτου κατεστήσαντο· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 9:2)
  • ὀγδόῃ δὲ πυθιάδι προσενομοθέτησαν κιθαριστὰσ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν κρουμάτων τῶν ἀφώνων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 11:1)
  • τρίτῃ δὲ πυθιάδι ἐπὶ ταῖσ εἴκοσι προστιθέασιν ὁπλίτην δρόμον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 11:3)

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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