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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

  • , ἐν δὲ Δελφοῖσ αὐτὸσ ἢκουεσ ὅτι τῶν εἰσ τὸν Παρνασὸν ἀναβάντων βοηθῆσαι ταῖσ Θυιάσιν, ἀπειλημμέναισ ὑπὸ πνεύματοσ χαλεποῦ καὶ χιόνοσ, οὕτωσ ἐγένοντο διὰ τὸν πάγον σκληραὶ καὶ ξυλώδεισ αἱ χλαμύδεσ, ὡσ καὶ θραύεσθαι διατεινομένασ καὶ ῥήγνυσθαι. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 18 1:4)
  • τῶ καὶ ὅτ’ ἐγγύθι νήσου ἐρεσσομένην ἴδον Ἀργώ, αὐτίκα πασσυδίῃ πυλέων ἔκτοσθε Μυρίνησ δήια τεύχεα δῦσαι ἐσ αἰγιαλὸν προχέοντο, Θυιάσιν ὠμοβόροισ ἴκελαι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 11:26)
  • καὶ οἱ τὴν προσῳδίαν δὲ διαστρέφοντεσ, "γουνάσιν" ὡσ θυιάσιν, ὁποτέρωσ ἂν δέξωνται, ἀπεραντολογοῦσιν, εἴθ’ ἱκετείασ ἑρμηνεύοντεσ εἴτε φρένασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 69:9)

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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