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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French myriade, from Late Latin mȳrias, from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, number of 10,000), from μυρίος (muríos, numberless, countless, infinite).[1] Compare Russian мириа́да (miriáda), Polish miriada.

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Noun edit

міріа́да (miriádaf inan (genitive міріа́ди, nominative plural міріа́ди, genitive plural міріа́д)

  1. (historical, obsolete) myriad (ten thousand)
    Synonym: де́сять ти́сяч (désjatʹ týsjač, ten thousand)
  2. (in the plural, literary) myriad (a countless number or multitude)
    Synonym: бе́зліч (bézlič)

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References edit

  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “міріади”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 480
  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2017), “міріада”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 8 (л – мішу́рний), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN

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