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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

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 τούτοισ ἴσοι περί τε τοὺσ ἱστοὺσ καὶ τὰσ λιθοφόρουσ κεραίασ, ἦσαν δὲ καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἱστοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ καρχησίοισ οὖσι χαλκοῖσ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ πρώτου τρεῖσ ἄνδρεσ, εἶθ’ ἑξῆσ καθ’ ἕνα λειπόμενοι τούτοισ δ’ ἐν πλεκτοῖσ γυργάθοισ διὰ τροχιλίων εἰσ τὰ θωράκια λίθοι παρεβάλλοντο καὶ βέλη διὰ τῶν παίδων, ἄγκυραι δὲ ἦσαν ξύλιναι μέν τέτταρεσ, σιδηραῖ δ’ ὀκτώ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 3:1)
  • λέγεται δ’ ὑπό τινων τὸν μὲν Θεμιστοκλέα περὶ τούτων ἀπὸ τοῦ καταστρώματοσ ἄνωθεν τῆσ νεὼσ διαλέγεσθαι, γλαῦκα δ’ ὀφθῆναι διαπετομένην ἀπὸ δεξιᾶσ τῶν νεῶν καὶ τοῖσ καρχησίοισ ἐπικαθίζουσαν· (Plutarch, , chapter 12 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking-cup

  2. the mast-head of a ship

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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