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συκίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκίς συκίδος

Structure: συκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: suke/h

Sense

  1. a slip or cutting from a fig-tree, a young fig-tree

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative συκίς συκίδε συκίδες
Genitive συκίδος συκίδοιν συκίδων
Dative συκίδι συκίδοιν συκίσιν*
Accusative συκίδα συκίδε συκίδας
Vocative συκί συκίδε συκίδες

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

  • πρῶτα μὲν ἂν ἀμπελίδοσ ὄρχον ἐλάσαι μακρόν, εἶτα παρὰ τόνδε νέα μοσχίδια συκίδων, καὶ τὸ τρίτον ἡμερίδοσ ὄρχον, ὁ γέρων ὁδί, καὶ περὶ τὸ χωρίον ἐλᾷδασ ἅπαν ἐν κύκλῳ, ὥστ’ ἀλείφεσθαί σ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν κἀμὲ ταῖσ νουμηνίαισ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Choral, antistrophe6)

Synonyms

  1. a slip or cutting from a fig-tree

Similar forms

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

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