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πυρρίχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρρίχη

Structure: πυρριχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the pyrrhic dance, a, war-dance
  2. contortions

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυρρίχη πυρρίχᾱ πυρρίχαι
Genitive πυρρίχης πυρρίχαιν πυρριχῶν
Dative πυρρίχῃ πυρρίχαιν πυρρίχαις
Accusative πυρρίχην πυρρίχᾱ πυρρίχᾱς
Vocative πυρρίχη πυρρίχᾱ πυρρίχαι

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

  • ὅθεν ἐκινήθησαν αἱ καλούμεναι πυρρίχαι καὶ πᾶσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ τρόποσ τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 26 2:1)
  • καὶ στοιχεῖα καὶ πυρρίχη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 2:1)
  • τρεῖσ δ’ εἰσὶ τῆσ σκηνικῆσ ποιήσεωσ ὀρχήσεισ, τραγική, κωμική, σατυρική, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τῆσ λυρικῆσ ποιήσεωσ τρεῖσ, πυρρίχη, γυμνοπαιδική, ὑπορχηματική. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 2:7)
  • καὶ ἐστὶν ὁμοία ἡ μὲν πυρρίχη τῇ σατυρικῇ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 2:8)
  • ἀμφότεραι γὰρ διὰ τάχουσ, πολεμικὴ δὲ δοκεῖ εἶναι ἡ πυρρίχη · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 3:1)
  • κρίνειν δὲ τὸν πολέμαρχον καὶ ἆθλον διδόναι τῷ νικῶντι κρέασ, ἡ δὲ πυρρίχη παρὰ μὲν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ Ἕλλησιν οὐκ ἔτι παραμένει, καὶ ἐκλιπούσησ δὲ αὐτῆσ συμβέβηκε τοὺσ πολέμουσ καταλυθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 29 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. the pyrrhic dance

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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