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εἰκάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκάς εἰκάδος

Structure: εἰκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)/kosi

Sense

  1. The twentieth day of the month
  2. (in the plural) The last ten days of the month

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἰκάς εἰκάδε εἰκάδες
Genitive εἰκάδος εἰκάδοιν εἰκάδων
Dative εἰκάδι εἰκάδοιν εἰκάσιν*
Accusative εἰκάδα εἰκάδε εἰκάδας
Vocative εἰκά εἰκάδε εἰκάδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν εἰκάσ, ᾗ τίθεμεν πυθέσθαι τοὺσ Φωκέασ τὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 78:3)
  • τῇ πέμπτῃ δ’ ὁ Ιὤσηποσ, αὕτη δ’ ἦν Ἀρτεμισίου μηνὸσ μία καὶ εἰκάσ, φθάνει παρελθὼν εἰσ τὴν Ιὠταπάταν ἐκ τῆσ Τιβεριάδοσ καὶ πεπτωκότα τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ ἐγείρει τὰ φρονήματα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 177:2)

Synonyms

  1. The twentieth day of the month

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