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|Full diacritics=σῐκύα
|Medium diacritics=σικύα
|Low diacritics=σικύα
|Capitals=ΣΙΚΥΑ
|Transliteration A=sikýa
|Transliteration B=sikya
|Transliteration C=sikya
|Beta Code=siku/a
|Definition=[ῠ], Ion. σῐκ-ύη, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">bottle-gourd, bottle gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span> 616a22</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.13.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">CP</span>1.10.4</span>. 
<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">B</span> <b class="b2">round gourd, Cucurbita maxima</b>. 
</span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">σικύα Ἰνδική</b>,= <b class="b3">κολοκύντη</b>, Euthyd. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.2.58f</span>, cf. Menodor.ib.<span class="bibl">59a</span>: but ς. distd. fr. <b class="b3">κολοκύντη</b> in Hellespontian dialect, <span class="bibl">Ath.2.59a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> = [[κολοκυνθίς]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.37</span>; σ. πικρά Dsc.4.176. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">gourd</b> used as a calabash, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sammelb.</span> 7202.20</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">cupping-instrument</b>, because it was shaped like the gourd, <span class="bibl">Crates Com.41</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>22</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aph.</span>5.50</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>79e</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1405b3</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.47.8,11.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-0880.png Seite 880]] ἡ, ion. σικύη, = [[πέπων]], 1) die Pfebe od. Angurie, eine gurken- od. melonenähnliche Frucht, Plat. Tim. 79 e, die aber nur reif genossen ward, während man den [[σίκυος]] unreif verspeis'te; bes. eine baumhohe Art, Theophr. u. A. – Bei den Sp. der lange indische Kürbis; der runde hieß κολόκυνθα, Ath. II, 58 f. – 2) der Schröpfkopf, weil er von der Gestalt des länglichen Kürbisses war, cucurbita; Hippocr. Ar. Lys.
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