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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

  • Ἡσίοδοσ δ’ Ἀσκραῖοσ ὀρειάσιν εἴδετο Μούσαισ φθεγγόμενοσ, χαλκὸν δὲ βιάζετο θυιάδι λύσσῃ, ἔνθεον ἱμείρων ἀνάγειν μέλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 7:2)

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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