Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /myriás/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /myriás/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miɾiás/

Noun

μῡριάς • ‎(mūriás) f ‎(genitive μυριάδος); third declension

1. a number of ten thousand, a myriad
   1. often indefinitely, of countless numbers

Inflection

Usage notes

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

Descendants

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.
• LSJ 7th edition