πυραμίς

English (LSJ)

ίδος, ἡ,

   A pyramid, Hdt.2.8, 124, D.S.1.63, Str.17.1.33, OGI666.13 (Egypt, i A.D.), etc.; as a sepulchral monument, PLips. 30.14 (iii A.D.).    2 pyramid, as a geometrical figure, Pl.Ti. 56b, Arist.Cael.304a12, etc.    b pyramidal number, Speus. ap. Theol.Ar.62.    3 name of a farm-building, IG22.2776.16; of a fountain, Arch.Anz.26.233 (Panticapaeum).    II a sort of 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, EM697.27. (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 11 in shape; but the shape of a π. 11 is unknown: the derivation from Egypt. pr-m-wś 'the height of a pyramid' is doubtful.)

German (Pape)

[Seite 820] ίδος, ἡ (ein ägyptisches Wort, das die Griechen bald auf πῦρ, bald auf πυρός zurückführen), die Pyramide, Her. u. Folgde. – Auch eine Kuchenart, wahrscheinlich von der Gestalt benannt, Ephippus bei Ath. XIV, 642 e. Vgl. πυραμοῦς, von dem es Iatrocles bei Ath. XIV, 647 c unterscheidet, γίγνεσθαι γὰρ ἐκ πυρῶν πεφωσμένων καὶ μέλιτι δεδευμένων.