πυραμίς

A. pyramid, 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.).

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, IG 22.2776.16; 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, 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 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.)