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πυραμίς
πυραμίς, ίδος, ἡ,

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a pyramid

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Headword:
πυραμίς
Headword (normalized):
πυραμίς
Headword (normalized/stripped):
πυραμις
Intro Text:
πυραμίς, ίδος, ἡ,
IDX:
91797
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570
Key:
pu_ra^mi/s

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urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0
Children (1)
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0
pyramid, Hdt. 2.8, 124, D.S. 1.63, Str. 17.1.33, OGI 666.13 ( Egypt, i A.D.), etc.; as a sepulchral monument, PLips. 30.14 (iii A.D.).
Children (2)
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0-0
Children (2)
2
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0-0-0
pyramid, as a geometrical figure, Pl. Ti. 56b, Arist. Cael. 304a12, etc.
Children (1)
b
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0-0-0-0
pyramidal number, Speus. ap. Theol.Ar. 62.
3
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0-0-1
IG 2(2).2776.16; of a fountain, Arch.Anz. 26.233 ( Panticapaeum).
II
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n91570-0-0-1
cake, Ephipp. 13.5 (anap.); different from πυραμοῦς, acc. to Iatrocl. ap. Ath. 14.647c codd. (but dub., cf. πυραμοῦντα· τὴν πυραμίδα, Hsch.); ἡ ἐκ πυρῶν καὶ μέλιτος, ὥσπερ σησαμὶς ἡ ἐκ σησάμων καὶ μέλιτος, EM 697.27. (Expld. by Gramm., etc., fr. πῦρ because pointed, Amm.Marc. 22.15.29, cf. Pl. l.c.; from πυρός, St.Byz.: it is suggested that the pyramids were named from resembling a πυραμίς II in shape; but the shape of a π. II is unknown: the derivation from Egypt. pr-m-wś ‘the height of a pyramid’ is doubtful.)

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