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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

  • 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

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

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