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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

  • μάτηρ πρῶτά νιν λευρᾶσ ἀπὸ πέτρασ ἢ σκόλοποσ ὄψεται δοκεύοντα, μαινάσιν δ’ ἀπύσει· (Euripides, choral, strophe 12)
  • Μαινάσιν γε Βακχίου. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:19)
  • διόπερ λάθρᾳ τούτου διαπλεύσαντοσ πρὸσ τὸ σφέτερον στρατόπεδον, τὸν μὲν Λυκοῦργόν φασιν ἐπιθέμενον ταῖσ μαινάσιν ἐν τῷ καλουμένῳ Νυσίῳ πάσασ ἀποκτεῖναι, τὸν δὲ Διόνυσον περαιώσαντα τὰσ δυνάμεισ μάχῃ κρατῆσαι τῶν Θρᾳκῶν, καὶ τὸν Λυκοῦργον ζωγρήσαντα τυφλῶσαί τε καὶ πᾶσαν αἰκίαν εἰσενεγκάμενον ἀνασταυρῶσαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 65 5:1)

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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