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μῡριάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῡριάς μυριάδος

Structure: μυριαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a number of ten thousand, a myriad, often indefinitely, of countless numbers

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

  • ἢ τὸν ἀριθμόν τισ αὖ νομίζοι κατ’ εἴδη δύο διαιρεῖν μυριάδα ἀποτεμνόμενοσ ἀπὸ πάντων, ὡσ ἓν εἶδοσ ἀποχωρίζων, καὶ τῷ λοιπῷ δὴ παντὶ θέμενοσ ἓν ὄνομα διὰ τὴν κλῆσιν αὖ καὶ τοῦτ’ ἀξιοῖ γένοσ ἐκείνου χωρὶσ ἕτερον ἓν γίγνεσθαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 34:1)
  • συνήγαγόν τε ἐσ ἕνα χῶρον μυριάδα ἀνθρώπων, καὶ συννάξαντεσ ταύτην ὡσ μάλιστα εἶχον περιέγραψαν ἔξωθεν κύκλον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 60 3:2)

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