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καρχήσιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: καρχήσιον

Structure: καρχησι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a drinking-cup
  2. the mast-head of a ship

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καρχήσιον καρχησίω καρχήσια
Genitive καρχησίου καρχησίοιν καρχησίων
Dative καρχησίῳ καρχησίοιν καρχησίοις
Accusative καρχήσιον καρχησίω καρχήσια
Vocative καρχήσιον καρχησίω καρχήσια

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

  • ἄστρων γὰρ ψαύει καρχήσια καὶ τριελίκτουσ θώρακασ μεγάλων ἐντὸσ ἔχει νεφέων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 2:5)
  • ὅτι δὲ διαφέρει σαφῶσ παρίστησι Καλλίξεινοσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Ἀλεξανδρείασ φάσκων τινὰσ ἔχοντασ θηρικλείουσ πομπεύειν, τοὺσ δὲ καρχήσια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 43 1:1)
  • προσπτῆναι μέσην τράπεζαν ἀμφὶ σῖτα καὶ καρχήσια, πρὸσ τὴν τράπεζαν φάσκων προσεληλυθέναι τοὺσ δράκοντασ καὶ γενέσθαι περὶ τὰ σιτία καὶ τὰ καρχήσια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 49 2:9)
  • "ναὸσ Βυζαντίων, ἐν ᾧ Τρίτων κυπαρίσσινοσ ἔχων κρατάνιον ἀργυροῦν, σειρὴν ἀργυρᾶ, καρχήσια β’ ἀργυρᾶ, κύλιξ ἀργυρᾶ, οἰνοχόη χρυσῆ, κέρατα δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 59 1:5)
  • κῆνοι δ’ ἄρα πάντεσ καρχησία τ’ ἦχον κἄλειβον ἀράσαντο δὲ πάμπαν ἐσλὰ τῷ γαμβρῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 49 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking-cup

  2. the mast-head of a ship

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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