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θυιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυιάς θυιάδος

Structure: θυιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w

Sense

  1. a mad or inspired woman, a Bacchante

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θυιάς θυιάδε θυιάδες
Genitive θυιάδος θυιάδοιν θυιάδων
Dative θυιάδι θυιάδοιν θυιάσιν*
Accusative θυιάδα θυιάδε θυιάδας
Vocative θυιά θυιάδε θυιάδες

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

  • τῶν ἐν Φωκεῦσι τυράννων κατειληφότων Δελφοὺσ καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν κληθέντα πόλεμον Θηβαίων πολεμούντων πρὸσ αὐτούσ, αἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον γυναῖκεσ, ἃσ Θυιάδασ ὀνομάζουσιν, ἐκμανεῖσαι καὶ περιπλανηθεῖσαι νυκτὸσ ἔλαθον ἐν Ἀμφίσσῃ γενόμεναι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, Fwkides1)
  • τῶν ἐν Φωκεῦσι τυράννων κατειληφότων Δελφοὺσ καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν κληθέντα πόλεμον Θηβαίων πολεμούντων πρὸσ αὐτούσ, αἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον γυναῖκεσ, ἃσ Θυιάδασ ὀνομάζουσιν, ἐκμανεῖσαι καὶ περιπλανηθεῖσαι νυκτὸσ ἔλαθον ἐν Ἀμφίσσῃ γενόμεναι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1)
  • ἀπὸ ταύτησ δὲ καὶ ὕστερον ὅσαι τῷ Διονύσῳ μαίνονται Θυιάδασ καλεῖσθαι σφᾶσ ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mad or inspired woman

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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