ἰσχάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
It shares the same origin of ἰσχνός (iskhnós, “dry, arid”) and ἰσχαλέος (iskhaléos, “dry, barren”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /is.kʰás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /isˈkʰas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /isˈxas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /isˈxas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /isˈxas/
Noun
ἰσχᾰ́ς • (iskhás) f (genitive ἰσχᾰ́δος); third declension
- dried fig
- kind of spurge (Euphorbia apios)
- Synonyms: ἄπῐος (ápios), χᾰμαιρᾰ́φᾰνος (khamairáphanos)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἰσχᾰ́ς hē iskhás |
τὼ ἰσχᾰ́δε tṑ iskháde |
αἱ ἰσχᾰ́δες hai iskhádes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἰσχᾰ́δος tês iskhádos |
τοῖν ἰσχᾰ́δοιν toîn iskhádoin |
τῶν ἰσχᾰ́δων tôn iskhádōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἰσχᾰ́δῐ têi iskhádi |
τοῖν ἰσχᾰ́δοιν toîn iskhádoin |
ταῖς ἰσχᾰ́σῐ / ἰσχᾰ́σῐν taîs iskhási(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἰσχᾰ́δᾰ tḕn iskháda |
τὼ ἰσχᾰ́δε tṑ iskháde |
τᾱ̀ς ἰσχᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s iskhádas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἰσχᾰ́ς iskhás |
ἰσχᾰ́δε iskháde |
ἰσχᾰ́δες iskhádes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰσχᾰδοκᾰ́ρῠον (iskhadokáruon)
- ἰσχᾰδοπώλης (iskhadopṓlēs)
- ἰσχᾰδοφᾰ́γος (iskhadophágos)
- ἰσχᾰδώνης (iskhadṓnēs)
- ἰσχᾰ́δῐον (iskhádion)
Further reading
- “ἰσχάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἰσχάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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