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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

  • εἰ γάρ τι ἐγκαλεῖσ, εἰπε, Πυθιὰσ ἡμῖν αὕτη δικασάτω. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:10)
  • ὁρᾷσ, ὦ Πυθιάσ, οἱᾶ πάσχω ὑπὸ Λυσίου; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:13)
  • ἀπολώλεκασ ἡμᾶσ, ὦ Πυθιάσ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:24)
  • οὐχὶ ταύτησ ἕνεκεν, ὦ Πυθιάσ, ἐπανελήλυθα, ἣν οὐδ̓ ἂν προσβλέψαιμι ἔτι τοιαύτην οὖσαν, ἀλλὰ διὰ σέ, ὡσ μὴ καταγιγνώσκῃσ ἐμοῦ καὶ λέγῃσ, ἄτεγκτοσ ὁ Λυσίασ ἐστίν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:1)
  • φέρειν οὖν ἐθέλεισ, ὦ Πυθιάσ, Ιὄεσσαν ταύτην τὴν νῦν δακρύουσαν αὐτὸν ἐπιστάντα αὐτῇ ποτε μετὰ νεανίου καθευδούσῃ ἐμοῦ ἀποστάσῃ; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:3)

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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