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πυρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρεύς πυρέως

Structure: πυρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a fire-proof vessel

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τό γ’ ἄκουσεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων, αὐτίκα λαὸν μὲν σκέδασεν κατὰ νῆασ ἐί̈σασ, κηδεμόνεσ δὲ παρ’ αὖθι μένον καὶ νήεον ὕλην, ποίησαν δὲ πυρὴν ἑκατόμπεδον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, ἐν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν ἀχνύμενοι κῆρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 17:1)
  • πίσυρασ δ’ ἐριαύχενασ ἵππουσ ἐσσυμένωσ ἐνέβαλλε πυρῇ μεγάλα στεναχίζων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 17:5)
  • ἐννέα τῷ γε ἄνακτι τραπεζῆεσ κύνεσ ἦσαν, καὶ μὲν τῶν ἐνέβαλλε πυρῇ δύο δειροτομήσασ, δώδεκα δὲ Τρώων μεγαθύμων υἱέασ ἐσθλοὺσ χαλκῷ δηϊόων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 17:6)
  • οὐδὲ πυρὴ Πατρόκλου ἐκαίετο τεθνηῶτοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 20:1)
  • Τροίην δ’ ἐρίβωλον ἱκέσθην, ἐν δὲ πυρῇ πεσέτην, μέγα δ’ ἰάχε θεσπιδαὲσ πῦρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 21:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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