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πυρίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρίτης πυρίτου

Structure: πυριτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. of or in fire

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυρίτης πυρίτᾱ πυρίται
Genitive πυρίτου πυρίταιν πυριτῶν
Dative πυρίτῃ πυρίταιν πυρίταις
Accusative πυρίτην πυρίτᾱ πυρίτᾱς
Vocative πυρίτα πυρίτᾱ πυρίται

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

  • ὅμοια δὲ τούτοισ καὶ περὶ τῆσ Ἥρασ ᾄδουσιν, ἄνευ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα ὁμιλίασ ὑπηνέμιον αὐτὴν παῖδα γεννῆσαι τὸν Ἥφαιστον, οὐ μάλα εὐτυχῆ τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ βάναυσον καὶ χαλκέα καὶ πυρίτην, ἐν καπνῷ τὸ πᾶν βιοῦντα καὶ σπινθήρων ἀνάπλεων οἱᾶ δὴ καμινευτήν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἄρτιον τὼ πόδε· (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 6:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἥφαιστοσ χωλόσ ἐστι, βαναυσόσ τισ καὶ πυρίτησ τὴν τέχνην ὁ Προμηθεὺσ δὲ καὶ ἀνεσκολοπίσθη ποτέ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or in fire

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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