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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

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

  • ὦ Σκόπα, ἁ θεοποιὸσ ἄπιστον ἐμήσατο τέχνα θαῦμα, χιμαιροφόνον θυιάδα μαινομέναν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7742)
  • ἔμφρονα χαλκὸν Ὅμηροσ ἐδείκνυεν, οὔτε μενοινῆσ ἄμμορον, οὔτε νόου κεχρημένον, ἀλλ’ ἄρα μούνησ φωνῆσ ἀμβροσίησ, ἀνέφαινε δὲ θυιάδα τέχνην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 62:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mad or inspired woman

Related

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

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