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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

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

  • ἔστι δέ τισ ποταμόσ, ὕπατον κέρασ Ὠκεανοῖο, εὐρύσ τε προβαθήσ τε καὶ ὁλκάδι νηὶ περῆσαι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 5:23)
  • ἣν γὰρ ἔχε ζώων βιοδώτορα, μάρτυρα μόχθων, ἄγραισ εἰναλίαισ πολλάκι βριθομένην, τήνδε καὶ ἐν θανάτῳ λάχε σύνδρομον, εὖτε τελευτὴν εὑρ́ετο συλλήξασ ὁλκάδι καιομένῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5852)
  • τὸ δὲ συμπεσεῖν ἐσ τοὺσ παῖδασ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων τῶν ἀναβάντων πρὸσ βασιλέα διὰ τὴν μῆνιν, ἐσ Νικόλαν τε τὸν Βούλιοσ καὶ ἐσ Ἀνήριστον τὸν Σπερθίεω, ὃσ εἷλε Ἁλιέασ τοὺσ ἐκ Τίρυνθοσ ὁλκάδι καταπλώσασ πλήρεϊ ἀνδρῶν, δῆλον ὦν μοι ὅτι θεῖον ἐγένετο τὸ πρῆγμα ἐκ τῆσ μήνιοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 137 3:2)

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

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