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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

  • ^ τουτὶ κενόν σοι τὸ ἄγκιστρον ἡ δ’ ἰσχὰσ ἤδη προσέσχηται καὶ τὸ χρυσίον ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 48:19)
  • τὰ μέρη δ’ ἡμῶν χἠ σύνταξισ τοῦ βίου ἐστὶν κύαμοσ, θέρμοσ, λάχανον, γογγυλίσ, ὦχροσ, λάθυροσ, φηγόσ, βολβόσ, τέττιξ, ἐρέβινθοσ, ἀχράσ, τό τε θειοφανὲσ μητρῷον ἐμοὶ μελέδημ’ ἰσχάσ, Φρυγίασ εὑρήματα συκῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 44 2:3)
  • "ἐστὶν δὲ ἑφθὸν πύρινον σταῖσ σὺν μέλιτι καὶ τὰ καλούμενα κόκκωρα ἰσχὰσ καὶ κάρυα τρία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 53 2:3)
  • "ἄμησ, πλακοῦσ, ἔντιλτοσ, ἴτριον, ῥόα, ᾠόν, ἐρέβινθοσ, σησάμη, κοπτή, βότρυσ, ἰσχάσ, ἄπιοσ, πέρσεια, μῆλ’, ἀμύγδαλα ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Κλέαρχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 609)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Ὀλυνθίῳ Φρυγίων σύκων μνημονεύων φησί τό τε θειοφανὲσ μητρῷον ἐμοὶ μελέδημ’ ἰσχάσ, Φρυγίασ εὑρήματα συκῆσ . (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 620)

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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