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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

  • καὶ σὺ τοίνυν, φαῖεν ἄν, οὐχ ὑποκριτήσ, ἀλλὰ ποιητὴσ τῶν καλλίστων καὶ νομοθέτησ γενόμενοσ ὑπὸ ταυτησὶ τῆσ ἰσχάδοσ παραφανείσησ ἠλέγχθησ πίθηκοσ ὢν καὶ ἀπ̓ ἄκρου χείλουσ φιλοσοφῶν καὶ ἕτερα μὲν κεύθων ἐνὶ φρεσίν, ἄλλα δὲ λέγων, ὡσ εἰκότωσ ἄν τινα ἐπὶ σοῦ εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἃ λέγεισ καὶ ἐφ̓ οἷσ ἐπαινεῖσθαι ἀξιοῖσ, χείλεα μέν σου ἐδίηνεν, ὑπερῴην δὲ αὐχμῶσαν καταλέλοιπε. (Lucian, Apologia 15:1)
  • οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην οὐδ’ ἂν ἰσχάδοσ μιᾶσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode30)
  • ἢν δὲ μόνον σὺ θίγῃσ τῆσ ἰσχάδοσ, ἰσχάδα δώσεισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 241 1:1)
  • ‐‐ Ἕτερον‧ ἰσχάδοσ τὸ εἴσω, τὸ πῖαρ, τὸ μελιτοειδὲσ, ὡσ ξηροτάτησ, ὕδατοσ δύο μοίρασ, καὶ λίνου καρποῦ φρύξασ μὴ σφόδρα ὡσ λεπτοτάτου μοίραν μίαν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 15.2)
  • ‐‐ Ἄλλο‧ τῆσ ἰσχάδοσ, καὶ ἄνθοσ χαλκοῦ ὀλίγον λεπτὸν, καὶ συκῆσ ὀπόν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 15.3)

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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