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ἰχθῡ́ς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰχθῡ́ς ἰχθύος

Structure: ἰχθῡς (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. fish
  2. (figuratively) stupid person
  3. (plural) fish market
  4. (plural) Pisces (constellation)

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

  • καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεόσ. ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ̓ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ̓ ὁμοίωσιν, καὶ ἀρχέτωσαν τῶν ἰχθύων τῆσ θαλάσσησ καὶ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν ἑρπόντων ἐπὶ γῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 1:26)
  • καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺσ ὁ Θεόσ, λέγων. αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆσ καὶ ἄρχετε τῶν ἰχθύων τῆσ θαλάσσησ καὶ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ πάντων τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν ἑρπόντων ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 1:28)
  • καὶ ἐλάλησεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ξύλων ἀπὸ τῆσ κέδρου τῆσ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ καὶ ἕωσ τῆσ ὑσσώπου τῆσ ἐκπορευομένησ διὰ τοῦ τοίχου καὶ ἐλάλησε περὶ τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν πετεινῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἑρπετῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἰχθύων. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 5:9)
  • πάνυ γοῦν ἤδη βελτίων γεγένησαι διὰ τὴν ὠνήν, ὃσ τοιαῦτα μὲν φθέγγῃ ‐ μᾶλλον δὲ τῶν ἰχθύων ἀφωνότεροσ εἶ ‐ βιοῖσ δὲ ὡσ οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν καλόν, μῖσοσ δὲ ἄγριον, φασί, παρὰ πάντων ἔχεισ ἐπὶ τῇ βδελυρίᾳ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 16:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δέ ποτε πλεῖν μέλλοντι αὐτῷ διὰ χειμῶνοσ ἔφη τισ τῶν φίλων Οὐ δέδοικασ μὴ ἀνατραπέντοσ τοῦ σκάφουσ ὑπὸ ἰχθύων καταβρωθῇσ; (Lucian, (no name) 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. fish

  2. stupid person

  3. fish market

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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