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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)
  • ἀλλ’ ὀλίγου δεῖν ὑπὸ τῶν Κυνικῶν ἐγώ σοι διεσπάσθην ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀκταίων ὑπὸ τῶν κυνῶν ἢ ὁ ἀνεψιὸσ αὐτοῦ ὁ Πενθεὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν Μαινάδων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 3:4)
  • εἰ δ̓ ἐθέλεισ ἐπέραστοσ εἶναι, μὴ ἐπίσειε τὴν αἰγίδα μηδὲ τὸν κεραυνὸν φέρε, ἀλλ̓ ὡσ ἥδιστον ποίει σεαυτὸν ἑκατέρωθεν καθειμένοσ βοστρύχουσ, τῇ μίτρᾳ τούτουσ ἀνειλημμένοσ, πορφυρίδα ἔχε, ὑποδέου χρυσίδασ, ὑπ̓ αὐλῷ καὶ τυμπάνοισ εὔρυθμα βαῖνε, καὶ ὄψει ὅτι πλείουσ ἀκολουθήσουσί σοι τῶν Διονύσου Μαινάδων. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:5)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖσ ἐμὴ μαινὰσ θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic8)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὀρθὰ πυρφορεῖσ μαινὰσ θοάζουσ’, οὐδέ σ’ αἱ τύχαι, τέκνον, ἐσωφρονήκασ’ , ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἐν ταὐτῷ μένεισ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:5)
  • ἣ δὲ ἰδοῦσα ἠίξ’, ἠύτε μαινὰσ ὄροσ κάτα δάσκιον ὕλῃ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:10)
  • μαινὰσ Ἐνυαλίου, πολεμαδόκε, θοῦρι κράνεια, τίσ νύ σε θῆκε θεᾷ δῶρον ἐγερσιμάχᾳ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1221)

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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