δίψαν (dipsan)

δίψαν is an Ancient Greek form of δίψα, meaning “thirst”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1349: αὐτῇ ἀφυσσάμενος κυνέῃ σβέσεν ὕδατι δίψαν·

Plutarch, Alexander 42.6: θεασάμενοι δὲ τὴν ἐγκράτειαν αὐτοῦ καὶ μεγαλοψυχίαν οἱ ἱππεῖς ἄγειν ἀνέκραγον θαρροῦντα καὶ τοὺς ἵππους ἐμάστιζον· οὔτε γὰρ κάμνειν οὔτε διψᾶν οὔθʼ ὅλως θνητοὺς εἶναι νομίζειν αὑτούς, ἕως ἂν ἔχωσι βασιλέα τοιοῦτον.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 261·2: … τὸ τέμνεσθαι καὶ μειοῦσθαι καὶ διαλύεσθαι· καὶ πάλιν σαρκὸς ἐμψύχου τὸ κοποῦσθαι καὶ ὀδυνᾶσθαι καὶ πεινᾷν καὶ διψᾷν καὶ ὕπνῳ κρατεῖσθαι· ψυχῆς δὲ σώματι κεχρημένης λύπαι καὶ ἀδημονίαι καὶ φροντίδες καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα.

All forms of δίψα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.