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μαινάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαινάς μαινάδος

Structure: μαιναδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nomai

Sense

  1. raving, frantic
  2. a mad woman, a Bacchante, Bacchanal, Maenad
  3. causing madness

Declension

Third declension

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

  • εὐθὺσ δὲ τὰ τύμπανα ἐπαταγεῖτο καὶ τὰ κύμβαλα τὸ πολεμικὸν ἐσήμαινε καὶ τῶν Σατύρων τισ λαβὼν τὸ κέρασ ἐπηύλει τὸ ὄρθιον καὶ ὁ τοῦ Σιληνοῦ ὄνοσ ἐνυάλιόν τι ὠγκήσατο καὶ αἱ Μαινάδεσ σὺν ὀλολυγῇ ἐνεπήδησαν αὐτοῖσ δράκοντασ ὑπεζωσμέναι κἀκ τῶν θύρσων ἄκρων ἀπογυμνοῦσαι τὸν σίδηρον. (Lucian, (no name) 4:3)
  • ἔτεκεν δ’, ἁνίκα Μοῖραι τέλεσαν, ταυρόκερων θεὸν στεφάνωσέν τε δρακόντων στεφάνοισ, ἔνθεν ἄγραν θη‐ ροτρόφον μαινάδεσ ἀμφι‐ βάλλονται πλοκάμοισ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • δίκετε πεδόσε τρομερὰ σώματα δίκετε, Μαινάδεσ· (Euripides, episode, lyric2)
  • ἦν δ’ ἄγκοσ ἀμφίκρημνον, ὕδασι διάβροχον, πεύκαισι συσκιάζον, ἔνθα μαινάδεσ καθῆντ’ ἔχουσαι χεῖρασ ἐν τερπνοῖσ πόνοισ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:2)
  • Φέρε, περιστᾶσαι κύκλῳ πτόρθου λάβεσθε, μαινάδεσ, τὸν ἀμβάτην θῆρ’ ὡσ ἕλωμεν, μηδ’ ἀπαγγείλῃ θεοῦ χοροὺσ κρυφαίουσ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:12)

Synonyms

  1. a mad woman

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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