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τιάρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιάρα

Structure: τιαρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a tiara

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τιάρα τιάρᾱ τιάραι
Genitive τιάρᾱς τιάραιν τιαρῶν
Dative τιάρᾱͅ τιάραιν τιάραις
Accusative τιάρᾱν τιάρᾱ τιάρᾱς
Vocative τιάρᾱ τιάρᾱ τιάραι

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

  • τοῦτο δὲ περσιστὶ πολλάκισ αὑτοῦ βοῶντοσ, οἱ μὲν ἐξίσταντο προσκυνοῦντεσ, ἀποπίπτει δὲ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ἡ τιάρα τοῦ Κύρου. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 11 3:2)
  • τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν βυσσίνη μὲν ἔσκεπεν τιάρα, κατέστεπτο δ’ ὑακίνθῳ, περὶ ἣν χρυσοῦσ ἄλλοσ ἦν στέφανοσ ἔκτυπα φέρων τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 267:1)
  • τιάρα γάρ τισ καὶ κίταρισ καὶ πῖλοσ καὶ χειριδωτοὶ χιτῶνεσ καὶ ἀναξυρίδεσ ἐν μὲν τοῖσ ψυχροῖσ τόποισ καὶ προσβόρροισ ἐπιτήδειά ἐστι φορήματα, οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν οἱ Μηδικοί, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ νοτίοισ ἥκιστα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 12:5)
  • εἶχε δὲ καὶ διάδημα περὶ τῇ τιάρᾳ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. a tiara

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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