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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

  • ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων Ἥφαιστοσ οὐκ ἔλαμπεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ σποδῷ μυδῶσα κηκὶσ μηρίων ἐτήκετο κἄτυφε κἀνέπτυε, καὶ μετάρσιοι χολαὶ διεσπείροντο, καὶ καταρρυεῖσ μηροὶ καλυπτῆσ ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode16)
  • φόνου δὲ κηκὶσ ξὺν χρόνῳ ξυμβάλλεται, πολλὰσ βαφὰσ φθείρουσα τοῦ ποικίλματοσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 1:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ στυπτηρίη ξὺν μέλιτι, κηκὶσ, βαλαύστιον , ξηρὰ, ἢ ξὺν μελικρή τῳ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 336)
  • ἢν δὲ κρέσσων ἡ ξυμφορὴ τῷδε γίγνηται, κηκίδα λείην καὶ βάτου Ῥίζην ξηρὴν, καὶ λίθον τὴν ἐξ ἁλὸσ κουράλλιον λείην ξηρὴν ἐμπάσσειν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 78)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν φαρμάκων καὶ κατάποτα ποιέειν ξηρῶν ἐν μέλιτι ἑφθῷ ἐσ σύστασιν· κηκὶσ λείη· ἄριστον δὲ καὶ Ῥόοσ ἐσ τὰ ὄψα, γίγαρτα, καὶ ὁ ὀξυλαπάθου καρπὸσ, καὶ ἰδίῃ ἑκάστου, καὶ ξυνῇ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 88)
  • 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)

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

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