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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

  • κρύψῃ μὲν οὖν πεσοῦσαν ἐκ καρχησίων. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:10)
  • ἕτερον δ’ ἐστὶν εἶδοσ παιδιᾶσ τῆσ ἐν λεκάνῃ, αὕτη δ’ ὕδατοσ πληροῦται, ἐπινεῖ δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ ὀξύβαφα κενά, ἐφ’ ἃ βάλλοντεσ τὰσ λατάγασ ἐκ καρχησίων ἐπειρῶντο καταδύειν ἀνῃρεῖτο δὲ τὰ κοττάβια ὁ πλείω καταδύσασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 61)
  • μνημονεύει δὲ τῶν καρχησίων καὶ Σαπφὼ ἐν τούτοισ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 49 2:1)

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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