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ἰσχάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσχάς ἰσχάδος

Structure: ἰσχαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: i)sxno/s

Sense

  1. a dried fig

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰσχάς ἰσχάδε ἰσχάδες
Genitive ἰσχάδος ἰσχάδοιν ἰσχάδων
Dative ἰσχάδι ἰσχάδοιν ἰσχάσιν*
Accusative ἰσχάδα ἰσχάδε ἰσχάδας
Vocative ἰσχά ἰσχάδε ἰσχάδες

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

  • βαβαί, μάχονται περὶ τοῦ δελέατοσ, καὶ οἱ μὲν συνάμα πολλοὶ περιτρώγουσι τὴν ἰσχάδα, οἱ δὲ προσφύντεσ ἔχονται τοῦ χρυσίου. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 51:8)
  • Χρυσίδα, Κορώνην, Ἀντίκυραν, Ἰσχάδα, καὶ Ναννάριον ἔσχηκασ ὡραίαν σφόδρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 52 2:1)
  • κἀν ἄλλοισ δὲ τὴν ἄγκυραν ἰσχάδα κέκληκεν διὰ τὸ κατέχειν τὴν ναῦν ναῦται δ’ ἐμηρύσαντο νηὸσ ἰσχάδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 55 2:2)
  • Πλῆρέσ τοι μέλιτοσ τὸ καλὸν στόμα Θύρσι γένοιτο, πλῆρέσ τοι σχαδόνων, καὶ ἀπ’ Αἰγίλω ἰσχάδα τρώγοισ ἁδεῖαν, τέττιγοσ ἐπεὶ τύγα φέρτερον ᾄδεισ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 107)

Synonyms

  1. a dried fig

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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