μυρίαι (myriai)

μυρίαι is an Ancient Greek form of μυρίος, meaning “countless; ten thousand”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.844: μυρίαι εἱλίσσοντο κεχαρμέναι, ὄφρα πυλάων

Plutarch, Timoleon 29.3: καλλίστην δὲ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτην ὄψιν ἡ Τιμολέοντος ἐπεδείκνυτο σκηνή περισωρευθεῖσα παντοδαποῖς λαφύροις, ἐν οἷς χίλιοι μὲν θώρακες ἐργασίᾳ, καὶ κάλλει διαφέροντες, μύριαι δὲ ἀσπίδες προετέθησαν.

All forms of μυρίος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.