ξυστίς

Ancient Greek

From ξυστός (xustós, “shaved, whittled”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s), from ξύω (xúō, “scratch, scrape”).

ξυστῐ́ς • (xustĭ́s) f (genitive ξυστῐ́δος); third declension

robe of rich and soft material reaching to the feet
1. (worn by women of quality)
  - 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1190
  - 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 99
  - 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 90.3
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 274
  - 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments
  - 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 135
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.406d
2. (worn by great men, esp. by victorious charioteers in their chariots, as a robe of state)
  - 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 70
3. (worn by tragic heroes)
  - 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 268
scraper
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 97
- 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, Collected Works 52

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ξυστῐ́ς hē xustĭ́s	τὼ ξυστῐ́δε tṑ xustĭ́de	αἱ ξυστῐ́δες hai xustĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ξυστῐ́δος tês xustĭ́dos	τοῖν ξυστῐ́δοιν toîn xustĭ́doin	τῶν ξυστῐ́δων tôn xustĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ξυστῐ́δῐ têi xustĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ξυστῐ́δοιν toîn xustĭ́doin	ταῖς ξυστῐ́σῐ / ξυστῐ́σῐν taîs xustĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ξυστῐ́δᾰ tḕn xustĭ́dă	τὼ ξυστῐ́δε tṑ xustĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ξυστῐ́δᾰς tā̀s xustĭ́dăs
Vocative	ξυστῐ́ς xustĭ́s	ξυστῐ́δε xustĭ́de	ξυστῐ́δες xustĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

“ξυστίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press