ἰχθύν (ichthyn)

ἰχθύν is an Ancient Greek form of ἰχθύς, meaning “fish”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.25.4: … ου δὲ κατιόντος μεγάλου χειμαζόμενοι ἐν ἀλιμένῳ χωρίῳ, οἱ μὲν πολλοὶ ἐπέβησαν ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς καὶ περιέπλεον τὸν Ἰχθῦν καλούμενον τὴν ἄκραν ἐς τὸν ἐν τῇ Φειᾷ λιμένα, οἱ δὲ Μεσσήνιοι ἐν τούτῳ καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς οἱ οὐ δυνάμενοι ἐπιβῆ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 21.49: πῶς νιν ἕλω μέγαν ἰχθὺν ἀφαυροτέροισι σιδάροις.

Plutarch, An Virtus Doceri Possit 2·2: καίτοι διδάσκουσιν οἱ παιδαγωγοὶ κεκυφότας ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς περιπατεῖν, ἑνὶ δακτύλῳ τὸ τάριχος ἅρασθαι, δυσὶ τὸν ἰχθῦν σῖτον κρέας· οὕτω καθῆσθαι, τὸ ἱμάτιον οὕτως ἀναλαβεῖν.

All forms of ἰχθύς (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.