πυραμίς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ίδος, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pyramid</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.8</span>, <span class="bibl">124</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.63</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.33</span>, <span class="title">OGI</span>666.13 (Egypt, i A.D.), etc.; as a sepulchral monument, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLips.</span> 30.14</span> (iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">pyramid</b>, as a geometrical figure, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span> 56b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>304a12</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b2">pyramidal number</b>, Speus. ap. <span class="title">Theol.Ar.</span>62. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> name of a farm-building, <span class="title">IG</span>22.2776.16; of a fountain, <span class="title">Arch.Anz.</span>26.233 (Panticapaeum). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> a sort of <b class="b2">cake</b>, <span class="bibl">Ephipp.13.5</span> (anap.); different from <b class="b3">πυραμοῦς</b>, acc. to Iatrocl. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath. 14.647c</span> codd. (but dub., cf. <b class="b3">πυραμοῦντα· τὴν πυραμίδα</b>, Hsch.); <b class="b3">ἡ ἐκ πυρῶν καὶ μέλιτος, ὥσπερ σησαμὶς ἡ ἐκ σησάμων καὶ μέλιτος</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>697.27</span>. (Expld. by Gramm., etc., fr. <b class="b3">πῦρ</b> because pointed, Amm.Marc.22.15.29, cf. Pl.l.c.; from <b class="b3">πυρός</b>, St.Byz.: it is suggested that the pyramids were named from resembling a πυραμίς <span class="bibl">11</span> in shape; but the shape of a π. <span class="bibl">11</span> is unknown: the derivation from Egypt. <b class="b2">pr-m-wś</b> 'the height of a pyramid' is doubtful.)</span>