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|Definition=-ίδος, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[pyramid]], [[Herodotus|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.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[pyramid]], as a geometrical figure, Pl.''Ti.'' 56b, Arist.''Cael.''304a12, etc.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[pyramidal number]], Speus. ap. ''Theol.Ar.''62.<br><span class="bld">3</span> name of a [[farm]]-[[building]], ''IG''22.2776.16; of a [[fountain]], ''Arch.Anz.''26.233 (Panticapaeum).<br><span class="bld">II</span> a sort of [[cake]], Ephipp.13.5 (anap.); different from [[πυραμοῦς]], acc. to Iatrocl. ap. Ath. 14.647c codd. (but dub., cf. <b class="b3">πυραμοῦντα· τὴν πυραμίδα</b>, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]); <b class="b3">ἡ ἐκ πυρῶν καὶ μέλιτος, ὥσπερ σησαμὶς ἡ ἐκ σησάμων καὶ μέλιτος</b>, ''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]] ''ΙΙ'' in shape; but the shape of a πυραμίς ''ΙΙ'' is unknown: the derivation from Egypt. pr-m-wś 'the height of a pyramid' is doubtful.)