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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

  • "ἔφερον δ’ οἱ μὲν οἰνοχόην χρυσῆν, οἱ δὲ καρχήσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:114)
  • , τῷ Πυθοδώρου τοῦ Σικυωνίου υἱῷ ἀποκειρομένῳ τὴν κόμην, ὄντι καλῷ συγγενόμενον τὰ Συβαριτῶν ἀναθήματα, στλεγγίδια χρυσᾶ τέσσαρα, τῇ Δεινιάδου δὲ αὐλητρίδι Βρομιάδι Φάυλλοσ καρχήσιον ἀργυροῦν Φωκαέων καὶ στέφανον χρυσοῦν κιττοῦ Πεπαρηθίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 83 1:4)
  • Ἀδαῖοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Διαθέσεωσ τὸ αὐτὸ ὑπολαμβάνει θηρίκλειον εἶναι καὶ καρχήσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 433)
  • ὁποῖον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ καρχήσιον ἐν τοῖσ ἑξῆσ λεχθήσεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 43 1:2)
  • καρχήσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 491)

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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