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κάχρυς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάχρυς κάχρυος

Structure: καχρυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. parched barley

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κάχρυς κάχρυε κάχρυες
Genitive κάχρυος καχρύοιν καχρύων
Dative κάχρυϊ καχρύοιν κάχρυσιν*
Accusative κάχρυν κάχρυε κάχρυας
Vocative κάχρυ κάχρυε κάχρυες

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

  • "ἐγὼ δὲ περιελθὼν τὰ ἀρώματα σκόροδά τε εὑρ͂ον ἐν αὐτοῖσ πεφυκότα καὶ γηπαττάλουσ τινὰσ ἀνορύξασ καὶ τῶν σκανδίκων καὶ βρακάνων λαχανευσάμενοσ, ἔτι δὲ κάχρυσ πριάμενοσ ‐ οὔπω δ’ οἱ λειμῶνεσ ἀνθοσμίαι ἦσαν, ὡσ αὐτοποδητὶ βαδίζειν ‐ ἀνατεθεὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀστράβην ἐδάρην τὸν ὄρρον καὶ νῦν βαδίζω τε ὀδυνηρῶσ καὶ ἰδίω θαμὰ καὶ μαλακιῶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ δέομαι διανεῦσαι ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ἐπὶ πλεῖστον· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:11)
  • ὁ δ’ εὐθέωσ ἀρχαῖον εἶν’ ἔφασκε τὸ κιθαρίζειν ᾄδειν τε πίνονθ’ ὡσπερεὶ κάχρυσ γυναῖκ’ ἀλοῦσαν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme3)
  • πρὸσ τοῦ Σόλωνοσ καὶ Δράκοντοσ οἷσι νῦν φρύγουσιν ἤδη τὰσ κάχρυσ τοῖσ κύρβεσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 25 1:5)
  • λουτρὰ δὲ ψυχρὰ προτεθέντα ἐκθερμαίνεσθαι παραχρῆμα, τὰσ δὲ κριθὰσ διασπαρείσασ εἰσ τὸν ἥλιον ἅλλεσθαι καθάπερ ἐν τοῖσ ἰπνοῖσ τὰσ κάχρυσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 20:4)

Synonyms

  1. parched barley

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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