ἰσχάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

It shares the same origin of ἰσχνός (iskhnós, “dry, arid”) and ἰσχαλέος (iskhaléos, “dry, barren”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /is.kʰás/ → /isˈxas/ → /isˈxas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /is.kʰás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /isˈkʰas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /isˈxas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /isˈxas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /isˈxas/

Noun

ἰσχᾰ́ς • (iskhás) f (genitive ἰσχᾰ́δος); third declension

1. dried fig
2. kind of spurge (Euphorbia apios)

   Synonyms: ἄπῐος (ápios), χᾰμαιρᾰ́φᾰνος (khamairáphanos)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἰσχᾰ́ς; τῆς ἰσχᾰ́δος (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ἰσχᾰ́δῐον (iskhádion)
• ἰσχᾰδοκᾰ́ρῠον (iskhadokáruon)
• ἰσχᾰδοπώλης (iskhadopṓlēs)
• ἰσχᾰδοφᾰ́γος (iskhadophágos)
• ἰσχᾰδώνης (iskhadṓnēs)

 

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