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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

  • εὐθὺσ γὰρ ὡσ ἐνέπλητο πολλῶν κἀγαθῶν, ἐνήλατ’ ἐσκίρτα ’πεπόρδει κατεγέλα ὥσπερ καχρύων ὀνίδιον εὐωχημένον κἄτυπτεν ἐμὲ νεανικῶσ παῖ παῖ καλῶν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode9)

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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