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πυρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρία

Structure: πυρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a vapour-bath

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυρία πυρίᾱ πυρίαι
Genitive πυρίᾱς πυρίαιν πυριῶν
Dative πυρίᾱͅ πυρίαιν πυρίαις
Accusative πυρίᾱν πυρίᾱ πυρίᾱς
Vocative πυρίᾱ πυρίᾱ πυρίαι

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

  • πυρίαν περιχεαμένων ψυχρὸν ἀνιὼν ἀτμὸσ ἐνδείκνυται τὴν εἰσ ἀέρα τοῦ θερμοῦ φθειρομένου 1 μεταβολήν, ὡσ φύσει πρὸσ τὸ πῦρ ἀντικείμενον · (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 10 3:3)
  • οἱ βαλανεῖσ γὰρ εἰσ τότε τάσσονται τὴν πυρίαν καθελεῖν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 243 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a vapour-bath

Related

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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