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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

  • ἐκεῖνον γὰρ διδαχθέντα τέωσ μὲν ὀρχεῖσθαι πάνυ κοσμίωσ καὶ ἐμμελῶσ καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ θαυμάζεσθαι μένοντα ἐν τῷ σχήματι καὶ τὸ πρέπον φυλάττοντα καὶ τοῖσ ᾅδουσι καὶ αὐλοῦσι συγκινούμενον ὑμέναιον, ἐπεὶ δὲ εἶδεν ἰσχάδασ, οἶμαι, ἢ ἀμύγδαλον πόρρω κειμένην, μακρὰ χαίρειν φράσαντα τοῖσ αὐλοῖσ καὶ ῥυθμοῖσ καὶ ὀρχήμασι συναρπάσαντα κατατρώγειν, ἀπορρίψαντα, μᾶλλον δὲ συντρίψαντα τὸ πρόσωπον. (Lucian, Apologia 14:2)
  • "ἀλλὰ σὺ τὸ ὅμοιον εἰργάσω με ὥσπερ εἴ τισ ὁλκάδα τριάρμενον ἐν οὐρίῳ πλέουσαν, ἐμπεπνευματωμένου τοῦ ἀκατίου, εὐφοροῦσάν τε καὶ ἀκροκυματοῦσαν, ἕκτοράσ τινασ ἀμφιστόμουσ καὶ ἰσχάδασ σιδηρᾶσ ἀφεὶσ καὶ ναυσιπέδασ ἀναχαιτίζοι τοῦ δρόμου τὸ ῥόθιον, φθόνῳ τῆσ εὐηνεμίασ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 15:3)
  • φιβάλεωσ ἰσχάδασ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:9)
  • ὡσ ὀξὺ πρὸσ τὰσ ἰσχάδασ κεκράγατε. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:14)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔτι πάσασ κατέτραγον τὰσ ἰσχάδασ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:20)

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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