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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

  • παρὰ πόδασ τοιγαροῦν τῆσ λιχνείασ ταύτησ τἀπίχειρα, καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ πίθηκοι δεθεὶσ κλοιῷ τὸν τράχηλον ἄλλοισ μὲν γέλωτα παρέχεισ, σεαυτῷ δὲ δοκεῖσ τρυφᾶν, ὅτι ἔστι σοι τῶν ἰσχάδων ἀφθόνωσ ἐντραγεῖν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 24:8)
  • ἐνεγκάτω τισ ἔνδοθεν τῶν ἰσχάδων τοῖσ χοιριδίοισιν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:15)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ ἄλλων ἐστὶ πάντων πλησμονή, ἔρωτοσ ἄρτων μουσικῆσ τραγημάτων τιμῆσ πλακούντων ἀνδραγαθίασ ἰσχάδων φιλοτιμίασ μάζησ στρατηγίασ φακῆσ· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 4:20)
  • αἱ δὲ λήκυθοι μύρου γέμουσι, τὸ δ’ ὑπερῷον ἰσχάδων. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode6)
  • καὶ ἄρτουσ ὀκτὼ ναυτικοὺσ ἐν γυργάθῳ ξηροὺσ καὶ ἰσχάδων βῖκον ἐκ Καρίασ καὶ ὕστερον ἐκ Πατάρων σανδάλια ἐπίχρυσα, ὦ ἀχάριστε· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:10)

Synonyms

  1. a dried fig

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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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