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στάχῡς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στάχῡς στάχυος

Structure: σταχῡ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. An ear of grain
  2. scion, progeny
  3. Spica, a star in the constellation Virgo
  4. lower part of the abdomen
  5. base horehound, Stachys germanica
  6. surgical bandage
  7. shibboleth

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

  • αὐτομάτη ἡ γῆ καρποφορεῖ, πρῶτον χόρτον, εἶτεν στάχυν, εἶτεν πλήρη σῖτον ἐν τῷ στάχυϊ. (, chapter 4 30:1)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ οὐκ ἐᾷ πυκνωθῆναι συνιστάμενον ἐν τῷ στάχυι τὸν καρπόν, ἀλλ’ ἐξίστησι καὶ διαχεῖ τῇ θερμότητι τὴν πῆξιν, ἂν μὴ βεβρεγμένησ τῆσ γῆσ ὑγρότησ παραμένῃ ψύχουσα καὶ νοτίζουσα τὸν στάχυν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 14 3:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ ἐάροσ οὐδὲ σπείρουσιν, ἀλλὰ παλιούροισ συνδεδεμέναισ ἐπικαταψήσαντεσ τὴν χώραν τῷ ἐκπεσόντι στάχυι κατὰ τὸν θερισμὸν ἀρκοῦνται· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 22:12)

Synonyms

  1. An ear of grain

  2. scion

  3. lower part of the abdomen

  4. surgical bandage

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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