Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τῦκον ‎(tûkon) (Boeotian)

Noun

σῦκον • ‎(sûkon) n ‎(genitive σύκου); second declension

1. fig, the fruit of the συκῆ ‎(sukê)
   • Homer, Odyssey 7.121
   • Herodotus, Histories 2.40
2. a large wart on the eyelids
   • Aristophanes, The Frogs 1247, (Compare Hippocrates, Epidemics 3.1085)
   1. hemorrhoids
3. ****
   • Aristophanes, Peace 1349, (Compare 1346)

Inflection

Derived terms

• συκοφάντης ‎(sukophántēs)
• βασίλεια σῦκον ‎(basíleia sûkon)

Related terms

• συκῆ ‎(sukê)

Descendants

• Greek: σύκο ‎(sýko)

References

• σῦκον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σῦκον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σῦκον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4810”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fig idem, page 318.
• LSJ 8th edition
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1421
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “t‘uz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 295
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2013), “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship, issue 10, § 6.4.4.