Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄντυξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄντυξ ἄντυγος

Structure: ἀντυγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the edge or rim of anything round or curved
  2. the rim of the round
  3. the rail round the front of the chariot, the chariot-rail
  4. the chariot
  5. the frame of the lyre
  6. the orbit, disk

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐθαύμασεν ἄν τισ τὰσ ἀψῖδασ τῶν τροχῶν θεασάμενοσ, ὅπωσ συντετορευμέναι καὶ τοῖσ πλευροῖσ τῶν βάσεων προσηνωμέναι ἁρμονίωσ ταῖσ ἄντυξιν ἐνέκειντο· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 106:3)

Synonyms

  1. the chariot

  2. the frame of the lyre

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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