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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

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

  • ‐‐ Ἕτερον‧ λιβανωτοῦ μοῖρα, σμύρνησ μοῖρα, κηκίδοσ μοῖρα, κρόκου τρεῖσ μοῖραι‧ τούτων ἕκαστον ξηρὸν τρίψασ ὡσ λειότατον, ἔπειτα μίξασ, τρίβειν ἐν ἡλίῳ ὡσ θερμοτάτῳ, παραχέων χυλὸν ὄμφακοσ ἑώσ ἄν ἰξῶδεσ γένηται, ἐπὶ τρεῖσ ἡμέρασ‧ ἔπειτα οἴνῳ αὐστηρῷ μέλανι εὐώδεϊ παραχέων κατ’ ὀλίγον δίεσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 12.5)
  • Μαρτυρία οὗτοσ αὖ τὴν μὲν διαθήκην γενέσθαι φησίν, καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον ἐκ τοῦ χαλκοῦ καὶ τῆσ κηκῖδοσ ἀποδοθῆναι τῷ Θηριππίδῃ, ὃ ἐκεῖνοσ οὔ φησιν, καὶ τὰ δύο τάλαντα τῷ Δημοφῶντι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 56:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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