πυραμοῦς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πῡρᾰμός (pūrămós)
Etymology
From πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + -οῦς (-oûs, -ful), reshaped after σησαμίς (sēsamís, “mixture of sesame seeds”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.ra.mûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /py.raˈmus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /py.raˈmus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /py.raˈmus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.raˈmus/
Noun
πῡρᾰμοῦς • (pūrămoûs) m (genitive πῡρᾰμοῦντος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πῡρᾰμοῦς ho pūrămoûs |
τὼ πῡρᾰμοῦντε tṑ pūrămoûnte |
οἱ πῡρᾰμοῦντες hoi pūrămoûntes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πῡρᾰμοῦντος toû pūrămoûntos |
τοῖν πῡρᾰμούντοιν toîn pūrămoúntoin |
τῶν πῡρᾰμούντων tôn pūrămoúntōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πῡρᾰμοῦντῐ tōî pūrămoûntĭ |
τοῖν πῡρᾰμούντοιν toîn pūrămoúntoin |
τοῖς πῡρᾰμοῦσῐ / πῡρᾰμοῦσῐν toîs pūrămoûsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πῡρᾰμοῦντᾰ tòn pūrămoûntă |
τὼ πῡρᾰμοῦντε tṑ pūrămoûnte |
τοὺς πῡρᾰμοῦντᾰς toùs pūrămoûntăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῡρᾰμοῦν pūrămoûn |
πῡρᾰμοῦντε pūrămoûnte |
πῡρᾰμοῦντες pūrămoûntes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πυραμοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πυραμοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette