Minyeides

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μινυηΐδες (Minuēḯdes).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.nyˈeː.i.des/, [mɪnyˈeːɪd̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.niˈe.i.des/, [miniˈɛːid̪es]

Proper noun

Minyēides f pl (genitive Minyēidum); third declension

1. the daughters of Minyas, who were changed into bats for slighting the festival of Bacchus
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.32:

     iussaque sacra colunt; solae Minyeides intus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.425:

     et triplices operire novis Minyeidas alis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Minyēides
Genitive	Minyēidum
Dative	Minyēidibus
Accusative	Minyēidas
Ablative	Minyēidibus
Vocative	Minyēides

References

• “Minyeides”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press