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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

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)
  • 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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