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λυσσάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυσσάς λυσσάδος

Structure: λυσσαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. raging mad

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λυσσάς λυσσάδε λυσσάδες
Genitive λυσσάδος λυσσάδοιν λυσσάδων
Dative λυσσάδι λυσσάδοιν λυσσάσιν*
Accusative λυσσάδα λυσσάδε λυσσάδας
Vocative λυσσά λυσσάδε λυσσάδες

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

  • βέβακεν ἐν δίφροισιν ἁ πολύστονοσ, ἁρ́μασι δ’ ἐνδίδωσι κέντρον ὡσ ἐπὶ λώβᾳ Νυκτὸσ Γοργὼν ἑκατογκεφάλοισ ὄφεων ἰαχήμασι, Λύσσα μαρμαρωπόσ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric4)
  • οὔποτ’ ἄκραντα δόμοισι Λύσσα βακχεύσει. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric3)
  • ὑμᾶσ δὲ τοὺσ νῦν τίσ λύσσα καὶ τίσ οἶστροσ ἄγει πρὸσ μιαιφονίαν, οἷσ τοσαῦτα περίεστι τῶν ἀναγκαίων; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 2 10:1)
  • "ἔστιν μὲν Αἵδησ, ἔστι δ’ ἄφθιτοσ βία, ἔστιν δὲ λύσσα μανιάσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 13 2:21)
  • τὸ γὰρ σκοτεινὸν τῶν ἐνερτέρων βέλοσ ἐκ προστροπαίων ἐν γένει πεπτωκότων, καὶ λύσσα καὶ μάταιοσ ἐκ νυκτῶν φόβοσ ὁρῶντα λαμπρὸν ἐν σκότῳ νωμῶντ’ ὀφρὺν κινεῖ, ταράσσει, καὶ διώκεσθαι πόλεωσ χαλκηλάτῳ πλάστιγγι λυμανθὲν δέμασ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:9)

Synonyms

  1. raging mad

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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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