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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μαινάς μαινάδε μαινάδες
Genitive μαινάδος μαινάδοιν μαινάδων
Dative μαινάδι μαινάδοιν μαινάσιν*
Accusative μαινάδα μαινάδε μαινάδας
Vocative μαινά μαινάδε μαινάδες

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

  • ὁ γὰρ μέγιστοσ τῶν Πανελλήνων ἄναξ, Ἀτρέωσ φίλοσ παῖσ, τῆσδ’ ἔρωτ’ ἐξαίρετον μαινάδοσ ὑπέστη· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:16)
  • σὲ τὸν πρόθυμον ὄνθ’ ἃ μὴ χρεὼν ὁρᾶν σπεύδοντά τ’ ἀσπούδαστα, Πενθέα λέγω, ἔξιθι πάροιθε δωμάτων, ὄφθητί μοι, σκευὴν γυναικὸσ μαινάδοσ βάκχησ ἔχων, μητρόσ τε τῆσ σῆσ καὶ λόχου κατάσκοποσ· (Euripides, episode1)
  • τὸ δὲ μνῆμα τὸ πλησίον Χορείασ μαινάδοσ ὀνομάζουσι, Διονύσῳ λέγοντεσ καὶ ἄλλασ γυναῖκασ καὶ ταύτην ἐσ Ἄργοσ συστρατεύσασθαι, Περσέα δέ, ὡσ ἐκράτει τῆσ μάχησ, φονεῦσαι τῶν γυναικῶν τὰσ πολλάσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 7:1)

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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