Minyeides

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μινυηΐδες (Minuēḯdes).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Minyēides f pl (genitive Minyēidum); third declension

the daughters of Minyas, who were changed into bats for slighting the festival of Bacchus
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.32:
  iussaque sacra colunt; solae Minyeides intus
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- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.425:
  et triplices operire novis Minyeidas alis
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Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only.

	plural
nominative	Minyēides
genitive	Minyēidum
dative	Minyēidibus
accusative	Minyēidas
ablative	Minyēidibus
vocative	Minyēides

References

“Minyeides”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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