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ὑστριχίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑστριχίς ὑστριχίδος

Structure: ὑστριχιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from u(/stric

Sense

  1. a whip for punishing slaves

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑστριχίς ὑστριχίδε ὑστριχίδες
Genitive ὑστριχίδος ὑστριχίδοιν ὑστριχίδων
Dative ὑστριχίδι ὑστριχίδοιν ὑστριχίσιν*
Accusative ὑστριχίδα ὑστριχίδε ὑστριχίδας
Vocative ὑστριχί ὑστριχίδε ὑστριχίδες

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

  • "πυρὶ δὲ καὶ σιδήρῳ καὶ δήγματι καὶ ὑστριχίσιν οὐδὲν ἀπαθὲσ οὐδ’ ἀναίσθητον ἀλγηδόνοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ καῦμα καὶ ῥῖγοσ εἰσ ἅπαντα καταδύεται καὶ πυρετόσ· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 39)

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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