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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

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

  • δελεάσασ τὸ ἄγκιστρον ἰσχάδι καὶ τῷ χρυσίῳ καθεζόμενοσ ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ τειχίου καθῆκεν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 47:10)
  • τῆσ Ἀγοράνακτόσ με λέγε, ξένε, κωμικὸν ὄντωσ ἀγκεῖσθαι νίκησ μάρτυρα τοῦ Ῥοδίου Πάμφιλον, οὐ μὲν ἔρωτι δεδαγμένον, ἥμισυ δ’ ὀπτῇ ἰσχάδι καὶ λύχνοισ Ἴσιδοσ εἰδόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3111)

Synonyms

  1. a dried fig

Related

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

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