Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

συκῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκῆ

Structure: συκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: su=kon

Sense

  1. the fig-tree
  2. a fig

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἱνατί τοῦτο̣ ἀνηγάγετε ἡμᾶσ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου παραγενέσθαι εἰσ τὸν τόπον τὸν πονηρὸν τοῦτον, τόποσ οὗ οὐ σπείρεται, οὐδὲ συκαῖ, οὐδὲ ἄμπελοι, οὔτε ροαί, οὔτε ὕδωρ ἐστὶ πιεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 20:5)
  • γῆ πυροῦ καὶ κριθῆσ, ἄμπελοι, συκαῖ, ροαί, γῆ ἐλαίασ ἐλαίου καὶ μέλιτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 8:8)
  • ἡ ἄμπελοσ ἐξηράνθη, καὶ αἱ συκαῖ ὠλιγώθησαν. ρόα καὶ φοῖνιξ καὶ μῆλον καί πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐξηράνθησαν, ὅτι ᾔσχυναν χαρὰν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:12)
  • πάντα τὰ ὀχυρώματά σου συκαῖ σκοποὺσ ἔχουσαι. ἐὰν σαλευθῶσι, καὶ πεσοῦνται εἰσ στόμα ἔσθοντοσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Nahum 3:12)
  • ἴστορεσ θεοὶ Ἄγραυλοσ, Ἑστία, Ἐνυώ, Ἐνυάλιοσ, Ἄρησ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀρεία, Ζεύσ, Θαλλώ, Αὐξώ, Ἡγεμόνη, Ἡρακλῆσ, ὁρ́οι τῆσ πατρίδοσ, πυροί, κριθαί, ἄμπελοι, ἐλάαι, συκαῖ . (Lycurgus, Speeches, 101:4)

Synonyms

  1. the fig-tree

  2. a fig

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

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