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πυρσός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρσός πυρσοῦ

Structure: πυρς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a firebrand, torch, fires, the fires of love
  2. a beacon or signal-fire, bale-fire
  3. watch-fires

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυρσός πυρσώ πυρσοί
Genitive πυρσοῦ πυρσοῖν πυρσῶν
Dative πυρσῷ πυρσοῖν πυρσοῖς
Accusative πυρσόν πυρσώ πυρσούς
Vocative πυρσέ πυρσώ πυρσοί

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

  • πύρ’ αἴθει στρατὸσ Ἀργόλασ, Ἕκτορ, πᾶσαν ἀν’ ὄρφναν, διειπετῆ δὲ ναῶν πυρσοῖσ σταθμά. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • "ὥσπερ γὰρ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν τὴν διάνοιαν οἱ μὲν ἐκτὸσ αἰσθάνονται καὶ γιγνώσκουσι πυρσοῖσ τισι καὶ κηρύγμασι καὶ ὑπὸ σαλπίγγων, τοῖσ δὲ πιστοῖσ καὶ συνήθεσιν αὐτοὶ φράζουσιν· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 248)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἀσίαν, ἧσ ἦν κύριοσ, διέλαβε πυρσοῖσ καὶ βυβλιαφόροισ, δἰ ὧν ὀξέωσ ἤμελλεν ὑπηρετεῖσθαι πάντα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 57 5:3)
  • τούτου δὲ γραφέντοσ εἰσ πινάκιον, οὕτω δηλωθήσεται τοῖσ πυρσοῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 46 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a firebrand

  2. a beacon or signal-fire

  3. watch-fires

Related

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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