πυραμοῦς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῡρᾰμός (pūramós)

Etymology

From πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) +‎ -οῦς (-oûs, -ful), reshaped after σησαμίς (sēsamís, “mixture of sesame seeds”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pyː.ra.mûːs/ → /py.raˈmus/ → /pi.raˈmus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pyː.ra.mûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /py.raˈmus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /py.raˈmus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /py.raˈmus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.raˈmus/

Noun

πῡρᾰμοῦς • (pūramoûs) m (genitive πῡρᾰμοῦντος); third declension

1. cake of roasted wheat and honey
2. (in general) meed of victory, prize

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πῡρᾰμοῦς; τοῦ πῡρᾰμοῦντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῡρᾰμοῦς ho pūramoûs	τὼ πῡρᾰμοῦντε tṑ pūramoûnte	οἱ πῡρᾰμοῦντες hoi pūramoûntes
Genitive	τοῦ πῡρᾰμοῦντος toû pūramoûntos	τοῖν πῡρᾰμούντοιν toîn pūramoúntoin	τῶν πῡρᾰμούντων tôn pūramoúntōn
Dative	τῷ πῡρᾰμοῦντῐ tôi pūramoûnti	τοῖν πῡρᾰμούντοιν toîn pūramoúntoin	τοῖς πῡρᾰμοῦσῐ / πῡρᾰμοῦσῐν toîs pūramoûsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῡρᾰμοῦντᾰ tòn pūramoûnta	τὼ πῡρᾰμοῦντε tṑ pūramoûnte	τοὺς πῡρᾰμοῦντᾰς toùs pūramoûntas
Vocative	πῡρᾰμοῦν pūramoûn	πῡρᾰμοῦντε pūramoûnte	πῡρᾰμοῦντες pūramoûntes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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