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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

  • μετὰ τούτουσ τετράκυκλοσ πηχῶν τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα, ὀκτὼ δὲ τὸ πλάτοσ, ἤγετο ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν, ἐπὶ δὲ ταύτησ ἐπῆν ἄγαλμα Διονύσου δεκάπηχυ σπένδον ἐκ καρχησίου χρυσοῦ, χιτῶνα πορφυροῦν ἔχον διάπεζον καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ κροκωτὸν διαφανῆ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:117)
  • κατάβαλλε τἀκάτια, τὰ κυμβία αἴρου τὰ μείζω, κεὐθὺ τοῦ καρχησίου ἄνελκε τὴν γραῦν, τὴν νέαν δ’ ἐπουρίσασ πλήρωσον, εὐτρεπῆ τε τὸν κοντὸν ποοῦ καὶ τοὺσ κάλωσ ἔκλυε καὶ χάλα πόδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 234)

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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