μυριάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῡρῐ́ος (mūrĭ́os, “countless, ten thousand”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ắs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ás/ → /my.riˈas/ → /mi.riˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.riˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.riˈas/

Noun

μῡρῐᾰ́ς • (mūrĭắs) f (genitive μῡρῐᾰ́δος); third declension

1. a number of ten thousand, a myriad
   1. often indefinitely, of countless numbers

Usage notes

• When used for money, δρᾰχμῶν (drăkhmôn, “drachmae”) must be supplied.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μῡρῐᾰ́ς; τῆς μῡρῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῡρῐᾰ́ς hē mūrĭắs	τὼ μῡρῐᾰ́δε tṑ mūrĭắde	αἱ μῡρῐᾰ́δες hai mūrĭắdes
Genitive	τῆς μῡρῐᾰ́δος tês mūrĭắdos	τοῖν μῡρῐᾰ́δοιν toîn mūrĭắdoin	τῶν μῡρῐᾰ́δων tôn mūrĭắdōn
Dative	τῇ μῡρῐᾰ́δῐ tēî mūrĭắdĭ	τοῖν μῡρῐᾰ́δοιν toîn mūrĭắdoin	ταῖς μῡρῐᾰ́σῐ / μῡρῐᾰ́σῐν taîs mūrĭắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν μῡρῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn mūrĭắdă	τὼ μῡρῐᾰ́δε tṑ mūrĭắde	τᾱ̀ς μῡρῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s mūrĭắdăs
Vocative	μῡρῐᾰ́ς mūrĭắs	μῡρῐᾰ́δε mūrĭắde	μῡρῐᾰ́δες mūrĭắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-δς (*-ds).

Derived terms

• δῐσμῡρῐᾰ́ς (dĭsmūrĭắs)
• μῡρῐᾰδῐκός (mūrĭădĭkós)
• μῡρῐᾰδῐσμός (mūrĭădĭsmós)
• μῡρῐᾰ́εθλος (mūrĭắethlos)
• μῡρῐᾰ́κῐς (mūrĭắkĭs)
• μῡρῐᾰκῐσμῡρῐοστός (mūrĭăkĭsmūrĭostós)
• μῡρῐᾰ́ομαι (mūrĭắomai)
• μῡρῐᾰστός (mūrĭăstós)

Descendants

• → Latin: mȳrias
  • → Catalan: miríada
  • → Czech: myriáda
  • → Danish: myriade
  • → Dutch: myriade
  • → English: myriad
  • → French: myriade
  • → German: Myriade
  • → Polish: miriada
  • → Portuguese: miríade
  • → Russian: мириа́да (miriáda)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: mirijada
  • → Spanish: miríada
  • → Swedish: myriad
  • → Welsh: myrdd

References

• “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.
  • million idem, page 529.
  • myriad idem, page 549.
  • thousand idem, page 868.