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συκάμινος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκάμινος

Sense

  1. the mulberry-tree

Examples

  • ὁ συκάμινοσ συκάμιν’, ὁρᾷσ, φέρει, ὁ πρῖνοσ ἀκύλουσ, ὁ κόμαροσ μιμαίκυλα Θεόφραστοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 35 2:2)
  • φέρει δὲ τὸν καρπὸν τοῦτον ἡ Αἰγυπτία συκάμινοσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου καὶ οὐκ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπικαρπίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 36 1:1)
  • ἡ δὲ περσέα ἐνταῦθα μόνον καὶ παρ’ Αἰθίοψι, δένδρον μέγα, καρπὸν ἔχον γλυκὺν καὶ μέγαν, καὶ ἡ συκάμινοσ ἡ ἐκφέρουσα τὸν λεγόμενον καρπὸν συκόμορον· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 7:3)

Synonyms

  1. the mulberry-tree

Related

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

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