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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

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

  • τούτου δ’ ἐφεξῆσ σχολαστήριον ὑπῆρχε πεντάκλινον, ἐκ πύξου τοὺσ τοίχουσ καὶ τὰ θυρώματα κατεσκευασμένον, βιβλιοθήκην ἔχον ἐν αὑτῷ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ὀροφὴν πόλον ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν Ἀχραδίνην ἀπομεμιμημένον ἡλιοτροπίου, ἦν δὲ καὶ βαλανεῖον τρίκλινον πυρίασ χαλκᾶσ ἔχον τρεῖσ καὶ λουτῆρα πέντε μετρητὰσ δεχόμενον ποικίλον τοῦ Ταυρομενίτου λίθου, κατεσκεύαστο δὲ καὶ οἰκήματα πλείω τοῖσ ἐπιβάταισ καὶ τοῖσ τὰσ ἀντλίασ φυλάττουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 421)
  • ἐρίων δ’ ἦν θερμῶν ὑποβολή τε καὶ περιβολὴ συνεχὴσ καὶ πυρίασ πᾶσα ἰδέα, καὶ μόλισ οὕτω διαγίγνομαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:12)

Synonyms

  1. a vapour-bath

Related

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

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