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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 συνάξουσι τὰ γεννήματα αὐτῶν, λέγει Κύριοσ, οὐκ ἔστι σταφυλὴ ἐν ταῖσ ἀμπέλοισ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι σῦκα ἐν ταῖσ συκαῖσ, καὶ τὰ φύλλα κατερρύηκεν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 8:11)
  • οἱο͂ν ἐδόκει τὸ περὶ τὴν χάλαζαν εἶναι τὴν ὑπὸ χαλαζοφυλάκων αἵματι σπάλακοσ ἢ ῥακίοισ γυναικείοισ ἀποτρεπομένην καὶ τὸ τῶν ἀγρίων ἐρινεῶν, ἃ ταῖσ ἡμέροισ περιαπτόμενα συκαῖσ ἀπορρεῖν οὐκ ἐᾷ τὸν καρπὸν ἀλλὰ συνέχει καὶ συνεκπεπαίνει· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 8:1)
  • " τοὺσ ἀσώτουσ εἶπε παραπλησίουσ εἶναι συκαῖσ ἐπὶ κρημνῷ πεφυκυίαισ, ὧν τοῦ καρποῦ ἄνθρωποσ μὲν οὐκ ἀπογεύεται, κόρακεσ δὲ καὶ γῦπεσ ἐσθίουσι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 41:3)

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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