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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

  • ἐν Θουρίοισ τοὔλαιον, ἐν Γέλᾳ φακοί, Ἰκάριοσ οἶνοσ, ἰσχάδεσ Κιμώλιαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 553)
  • ἡ δ’ ἑστίασισ ἰσχάδεσ καὶ στέμφυλα καὶ τυρὸσ ἔσται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 52 3:8)
  • τὸ δὲ περιαγόμενον ποτήριον οὐ μεῖζον ἦν κοτυλιαίου, τράγημα δὲ θέρμοσ μὲν ἢ κύαμοσ συνεχῶσ, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὡρίων εἰσεφέρετό τι, τοῦ μὲν θέρουσ ἄπιοσ ἢ ῥόα, τοῦ δ’ ἐάροσ ὦχροι, κατὰ δὲ τὴν χειμερινὴν ὡρ́αν ἰσχάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 2:2)
  • ἰσχάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 671)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Κυβερνήτῃ φησὶν εἰσέβαινον ἰσχάδεσ, τὸ παράσημον τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, καὶ θύμου δέσμαι τινέσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 67 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dried fig

Related

Similar forms

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

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