The corpus record

σῐκύ-α

sikua

bleeding cup

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Where it lives

Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

1. σικύα · sikya — Beekes

σικύα [f.] “‘bottle-gourd, Lagenaria vulgari8! (Hp., Arist, Thphr. etc.), metaph. ‘bleeding cup’ (Hp., com., PL, etc.). *VAR Jon. -ὕη (oexova H.). «ΟΟΜΡσικυ-ήλατον [n.] ‘patch of gourds, cucumbers’ (Hp.), -ἤρατον (pap.). *DER σίκυος (σικυός) [m.] ‘cucumber or melon, Cueumis (sativus) (Hp., com., Arist, etc.), σίκυς [f.] ‘id. (Alc., Dsc., Gal.). Diminutive σικύ-διον [n.] (Phryn. Com., pap. II-III’), -ὦδης … — [Beekes, s.v. σικύα, p. 1381]

2. σῐκύ-α · siky-a — LSJ

bottle-gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris

bottle-gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris, Arist. HA 616a22, Thphr. HP 1.13.3, CP 1.10.4.

σ. Ἰνδική,= κολοκύντη, Euthyd. ap. Ath. 2.58f, cf. Menodor.ib. 59a: but σ. distd. fr. κολοκύντη in Hellespontian dialect, Ath. 2.59a.

= κολοκυνθίς, Hp. Mul. 1.37; σ. πικρά Dsc. 4.176.

4 gourd

gourd used as a calabash, Sammelb. 7202.20 (iii B.C.).

II cupping-instrument

cupping-instrument, because it was shaped like the gourd, Crates Com. 41, Hp. VM 22, Aph. 5.50, Pl. Ti. 79e, Arist. Rh. 1405b3, IG 2(2).47.8,11.

In the wild

σικύας · sikyas Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
σικύας · sikyas Plato, Timaeus 80 (DIORISIS sentence 761)
σικύας · sikyas Septuaginta, Numeri 11

Where it came from

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