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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

  • ὣσ φαμένη μεγάροιο διέσσυτο μαινάδι ἴση παλλομένη κραδίην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 43:1)

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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