συκῆ (syke)

συκῆ means “fig tree”.

Ancient Greek word, found 90 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Homer, Odyssey 7.116: συκέαι τε γλυκεραὶ καὶ ἐλαῖαι τηλεθόωσαι.

Herodotus, Histories 1.193.3: τὰ γὰρ δὴ ἄλλα δένδρεα οὐδὲ πειρᾶται ἀρχὴν φέρειν, οὔτε συκέην οὔτε ἄμπελον οὔτε ἐλαίην. τὸν δὲ τῆς Δήμητρος καρπὸν ὧδε ἀγαθὴ ἐκφέρειν ἐστὶ ὥστε ἐπὶ διηκόσια μὲν τὸ παράπαν …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.60: … ον εἰ ὄχλος εἴη πολύς, πολὺς μέν, εἶπεν, ὁ ὄχλος, ὀλίγοι δʼ οἱ ἄνθρωποι. τοὺς ἀσώτους εἶπε παραπλησίους εἶναι συκαῖς ἐπὶ κρημνῷ πεφυκυίαις, ὧν τοῦ καρποῦ ἄνθρωπος μὲν οὐκ ἀπογεύεται, κόρακες δὲ καὶ γῦπες ἐσθίουσι. Φρύνης Ἀφροδ …

All forms of συκῆ (declension)

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.