μυριάς
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From μῡρῐ́ος (mūríos, “countless, ten thousand”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /myː.ri.ás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /my.riˈas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /my.riˈas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /my.riˈas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mi.riˈas/
Noun[edit]
μῡρῐᾰ́ς • (mūriás) f (genitive μῡρῐᾰ́δος); third declension
- a number of ten thousand, a myriad
- often indefinitely, of countless numbers
Usage notes[edit]
When μυριάς (muriás) is used for money, δραχμῶν (drakhmôn, “drachmae”) must be supplied.
Inflection[edit]
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μῡρῐᾰ́ς hē mūriás |
τὼ μῡρῐᾰ́δε tṑ mūriáde |
αἱ μῡρῐᾰ́δες hai mūriádes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μῡρῐᾰ́δος tês mūriádos |
τοῖν μῡρῐᾰ́δοιν toîn mūriádoin |
τῶν μῡρῐᾰ́δων tôn mūriádōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μῡρῐᾰ́δῐ têi mūriádi |
τοῖν μῡρῐᾰ́δοιν toîn mūriádoin |
ταῖς μῡρῐᾰ́σῐ / μῡρῐᾰ́σῐν taîs mūriási(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μῡρῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn mūriáda |
τὼ μῡρῐᾰ́δε tṑ mūriáde |
τᾱ̀ς μῡρῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s mūriádas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῡρῐᾰ́ς mūriás |
μῡρῐᾰ́δε mūriáde |
μῡρῐᾰ́δες mūriádes | ||||||||||
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “μυριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυριάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυριάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3461 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.