Latin

Proper noun

Dionysiās ?

1. accusative plural of Dionysia

References

• Dionysias in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Dionysias”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

dionysias

1. plural of dionysia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek διονυσιάς ‎(dionusiás).

Noun

dionȳsias f ‎(genitive dionȳsiadis); third declension

1. A kind of precious stone said to be effective against drunkenness

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dionysias”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• dionysias in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press