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πυρίτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: pyritēs

Principal Part: πυρίτης πυρίτου

Structure: πυριτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: πῦρ

Sense

  1. of or in fire

Declension

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