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κάχρυς?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: kachrys

Principal Part: κάχρυς κάχρυος

Structure: καχρυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. parched barley

Declension

Third 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

  • "ἐγὼ δὲ περιελθὼν τὰ ἀρώματα σκόροδά τε εὑρ῀ον 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)
  • εὐθὺς γὰρ ὡς ἐνέπλητο πολλῶν κἀγαθῶν, ἐνήλατ ἐσκίρτα πεπόρδει κατεγέλα ὥσπερ καχρύων ὀνίδιον εὐωχημένον κἄτυπτεν ἐμὲ νεανικῶς παῖ παῖ καλῶν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode9)
  • πρὸς τοῦ Σόλωνος καὶ Δράκοντος οἷσι νῦν φρύγουσιν ἤδη τὰς κάχρυς τοῖς κύρβεσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 25 1:5)
  • ἠδὲ ἀνακαλέσασθαι τῶν ἄκρων τὴν θέρμην γλευκίνῳ ἢ σικυωνίῳ λίπαϊ ξὺν πεπέρεϊ, καὶ τῷ καστορίῳ, καὶ νίτρῳ, καὶ κάχρυ, κηροῦ σμικρὸν ἐντήκοντα, ὡς ποθίζῃ τὸ χρῖσμα· καὶ διὰ τῆς λιμνήστιδος, ἠδ εὐφορβίου, καὶ δάφνης τοῦ καρποῦ ἀλείμματι , ἐπανάκλη σι ν θέρμης ποιέεσθα ι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 177)
  • 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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