μυριάς

Ancient Greek

From μῡρῐ́ος (mūríos, “countless, ten thousand”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

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

When μυριάς (muriás) is used for money, δραχμῶν (drakhmôn, “drachmae”) must be supplied.

Third declension of ἡ μῡρῐᾰ́ς; τῆς μῡρῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

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
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 *-ds.

“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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- million idem, page 529.
- myriad idem, page 549.
- thousand idem, page 868.

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