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Πύθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πύθιος Πύθιᾱ Πύθιον

Structure: Πυθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Pu_qw/

Sense

  1. Pythian, Delphian, his temple
  2. four persons whose office it was to consult the Delphic oracle

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Πύθιος Πυθίᾱ Πύθιον
Genitive Πυθίου Πυθίᾱς Πυθίου
Dative Πυθίῳ Πυθίᾱͅ Πυθίῳ
Accusative Πύθιον Πυθίᾱν Πύθιον
Vocative Πύθιε Πυθίᾱ Πύθιον
DualN/A/V Πυθίω Πυθίᾱ Πυθίω
G/D Πυθίοιν Πυθίαιν Πυθίοιν
PluralNominative Πύθιοι Πύθιαι Πύθια
Genitive Πυθίων Πυθιῶν Πυθίων
Dative Πυθίοις Πυθίαις Πυθίοις
Accusative Πυθίους Πυθίᾱς Πύθια
Vocative Πύθιοι Πύθιαι Πύθια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Πύθιος Πυθίου Πυθιώτερος Πυθιωτέρου Πυθιώτατος Πυθιωτάτου
Adverb Πυθίως Πυθιώτερον Πυθιώτατα

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

  • χρόνῳ δ’ ἔβα Πυθίαισ ἀποστολαῖσιν Οἰδίπουσ ὁ τλάμων Θηβαίαν τάνδε γᾶν τότ’ ἀσμένοισ, πάλιν δ’ ἄχη· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • εἰήν ὅθι δαί̈ων ἀνδρῶν τάχ’ ἐπιστροφαὶ τὸν χαλκοβόαν Ἄρη μείξουσιν, ἢ πρὸσ Πυθίαισ ἢ λαμπάσιν ἀκταῖσ, οὗ πότνιαι σεμνὰ τιθηνοῦνται τέλη θνατοῖσιν, ὧν καὶ χρυσέα κλῂσ ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ βέβακε προσπόλων Εὐμολπιδᾶν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. Pythian

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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