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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

  • ἅγνισον πυρσῷ μέλαθρον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, trochees25)
  • πρῶτον μὲν Διὸσ ἄλσοσ ἠρήμωσε λέοντοσ, πυρσῷ δ’ ἀμφεκαλύφθη ξανθὸν κρᾶτ’ ἐπινωτίσασ δεινῷ χάσματι θηρόσ· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 11)
  • τῷ γέ με πένθοσ ἄτλητον μαλερῷ τηκεδόνοσ δάμασε πυρσῷ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 32 1:1)
  • Πυρσῶ τοῦτο λέοντοσ ἀπ’ ὦν φλοιώσατο δέρμα Σῶσοσ ὁ βουπάμων, δουρὶ φονευσάμενοσ, ἄρτι καταβρύκοντα τὸν εὐθηλήμονα μόσχον, οὐδ’ ἵκετ’ ἐκ μάνδρασ αὖθισ ἐπὶ ξύλοχον μοσχείω δ’ ἀπέτισεν ὁ θὴρ ἀνθ’ αἵματοσ αἷμα, βληθείσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2631)

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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