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ὁλκάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁλκάς ὁλκάδος

Structure: ὁλκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/lkw

Sense

  1. a ship which is towed, a ship of burthen, trading vessel, merchantman

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁλκάς ὁλκάδε ὁλκάδες
Genitive ὁλκάδος ὁλκάδοιν ὁλκάδων
Dative ὁλκάδι ὁλκάδοιν ὁλκάσιν*
Accusative ὁλκάδα ὁλκάδε ὁλκάδας
Vocative ὁλκά ὁλκάδε ὁλκάδες

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

  • Εὐφρὼ καὶ Θαῒσ καὶ Βοίδιον, αἱ Διομήδουσ γραῖαι, ναυκλήρων ὁλκάδεσ εἰκόσοροι, Ἆγιν καὶ Κλεοφῶντα καὶ Ἀνταγόρην, ἕν’ ἑκάστη, γυμνούσ, ναυηγῶν ἥσσονασ, ἐξέβαλον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1611)
  • νηχόμενοσ Λείανδροσ ὅσον κράτοσ ἐστὶν ἐρώτων δείκνυεν, ἐννυχίου κύματοσ οὐκ ἀλέγων σοὶ δέ, φίλοσ, παρέασι καὶ ὁλκάδεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 293 1:2)
  • εἵποντο δ’ αὐτῷ πολλαὶ πάνυ τῶν Ἀρικηνῶν ὁλκάδεσ τὰ λάφυρα καὶ τοὺσ αἰχμαλώτουσ τῶν Τυρρηνῶν ἄγουσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 6 5:2)
  • ἐμπόριον δ’ ἦν τὸ χωρίον καὶ ὡρ́μουν αὐτόθι ὁλκάδεσ πολλαί. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 7:2)
  • καὶ αὐτοὺσ αἱ ὁλκάδεσ ἱστίῳ μὲν αἱ πρῶται διέφυγον ὀλίγαι, αἱ λοιπαὶ δέ, χαλάσαντοσ ἄφνω τοῦ πνεύματοσ, ἐν γαλήνῃ σταθερᾷ κατὰ τὸ πέλαγοσ ἠλῶντο, ὑπό του θεῶν ἐκδεδομέναι τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 15 3:6)

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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