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κηκίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηκίς κηκῖδος

Structure: κηκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. anything oozing forth, ooze, oozing, juices
  2. the dye made, sap oozing, the dye

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κηκίς κηκίδε κηκίδες
Genitive κηκίδος κηκίδοιν κηκίδων
Dative κηκίδι κηκίδοιν κηκίσιν*
Accusative κηκίδα κηκίδε κηκίδας
Vocative κηκί κηκίδε κηκίδες

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

  • οὓσ ἴδοιμ’ ἐγώ ποτε θανόντασ ἐν κηκῖδι πισσήρει φλογόσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:2)
  • κηκὶσ ὦν ξηρὴ, λείη, προσεπιπασσέσθω φακῷ τῷ ξηρῷ καὶ ψυχρῷ· ὠὰ ἑψήσι παχέα, ξὺν Ῥοιῆσ σιδίοισι, ἢ κηκῖδι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 105)

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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