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ξυστήρ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: xystēr

Principal Part: ξυστήρ ξυστῆρος

Structure: ξυστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: ξύω

Sense

  1. a graving tool

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

  • τέκτονος ἄρμενα ταῦτα Λεοντίχου, αἵ τε χαρακταὶ ῥῖναι, καὶ κάλων οἱ ταχινοὶ βορέες, στάθμαι καὶ μιλτεῖα, καὶ αἱ σχεδὸν ἀμφιπλῆγες σφῦραι, καὶ μίλτῳ φυρόμενοι κανόνες, αἳ τ ἀρίδες, ξυστήρ τε, καὶ ἐστελεωμένος οὗτος ἐμβριθής, τέχνας ὁ πρύτανις, πέλεκυς, τρύπανά τ εὐδίνητα, καὶ ὠκήεντα τέρετρα, καὶ γόμφων οὗτοι τοὶ πίσυρες τορέες, ἀμφίξουν τε σκέπαρνον: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2051)
  • Τῇ δ ὑστεραίῃ ἡμέρῃ, ἐπειδὰν ἐξέλῃς τὸν μοτὸν, κατιδὼν τὸ ὀστέον ὅ τι πέπονθεν, ἐὰν μή σοι καταφανὴς ᾖ ἡ τρῶσις, ὁκοίη τίς ἐστιν ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ, μηδὲ διαγινώσκῃς εἴ τέ τι ἔχει τὸ ὀστέον κακὸν ἐν ἑωυτέῳ, ἢ καὶ οὐκ ἔχει, τὸ δὲ βέλος δοκέῃ ἀφικέσθαι ἐς τὸ ὀστέον καὶ σίνασθαι, ἐπιξύειν χρὴ τῷ ξυστῆρι κατὰ βάθος καὶ κατὰ μῆκος τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὡς πέφυκε, καὶ αὖθις ἐπικάρσιον τὸ ὀστέον, τῶν Ῥηξίων εἵνεκα τῶν ἀφανέων ἰδεῖν, καὶ τῆς φλάσιος εἵνεκα τῆς ἀφανέος, τῆς οὐκ ἐσφλωμένης ἔσω ἐκ τῆς φύσιος τῆς κεφαλῆς τοῦ ἄλλου ὀστέου. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.3)
  • Ἐπειδὰν δὲ ξύσῃς τὸ ὀστέον τῷ ξυστῆρι, ἢν μὲν δοκέῃ ἐς πρίσιν ἀφίκειν ἡ τρῶσις τοῦ ὀστέου, πρίειν χρὴ, καὶ οὐ δεῖ τὰς τρεῖς ἡμέρας μὴ ὑπερβάλλειν ἀπρίωτον, ἀλλ ἐν ταύτῃσι πρίειν, ἄλλως τε καὶ τῆς θερμῆς ὡρ´ης, ἢν ἐξ ἀρχῆς λαμβάνῃς τὸ ἰήμα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.6)
  • Ἀλλὰ χρὴ, εἰ ἐννοοίης τὸν πυρετὸν ἐπιλαμβάνοντα, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τι σημεῖον τούτῳ προσγενόμενον, μὴ διατρίβειν, ἀλλὰ πρίσαντα τὸ ὀστέον πρὸς τὴν μήνιγγα, ἢ καταξύσαντα τῷ ξυστῆρι εὕ᾿πριστον δὲ γίνεται καὶ εὔξυστον᾿, ἔπειτα τὰ λοιπὰ οὕτως ἰητρεύειν, ὅκως ἂν δοκέῃ ξυμφέρειν, πρὸς τὸ γινόμενον ὁρῶν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 19.9)

Synonyms

  1. a graving tool

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

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