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δίψῃ (dipse)

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

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1442: δίψῃ καρχαλέος· παίφασσε δὲ τόνδʼ ἀνὰ χῶρον,

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.8: … διδασκάλῳ, ὅταν οἱ ἄρχοντες σημήνωσι. φέρονται δὲ οἴκοθεν σῖτον μὲν ἄρτον, ὄψον δὲ κάρδαμον, πιεῖν δέ, ἤν τις διψῇ, κώθωνα, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἀρύσασθαι. πρὸς δὲ τούτοις μανθάνουσι καὶ τοξεύειν καὶ ἀκοντίζειν. μέχρι μὲν δὴ ἓ …

Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 756: εἰ λιμός, ἢ δίψη τις, ἢ λιψουρία

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.