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φῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φῦσα φῦσης

Structure: φυς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pair of bellows, bellows
  2. a wind, blast, wind in the stomach
  3. a stream or jet
  4. an air-bubble

Declension

First 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

  • φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:21)
  • πολυέτη τὴν ἀποδημίαν ἔχων, νάρκη μὲν ἡ ἡδίστη, χοῖροσ, σῖμοσ, φάγροσ, ὀξύρυγχοσ, ἀλλάβησ, σίλουροσ, συνοδοντίσ, ἐλέωτρισ, ἔγχελυσ, θρίσσα, ἄβραμισ, τύφλη, λεπιδωτόσ, φῦσα, κεστρεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 88 3:1)
  • ἢν δὲ καὶ ἐπιδειπνήσωσι, καὶ φῦσα καὶ στρόφοσ καὶ ἡ κοιλίη καταρρήγνυται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , x.8)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἐγκυρήσῃ πλατεῖ τε καὶ ἀντικειμένῳ, καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸ ἀντιπέσῃ, καὶ φύσει τοῦτο τύχῃ ἐὸν μήτε ἰσχυρόν, ὥστε δύνασθαι ἀνέχεσθαι τὴν βίην καὶ μηδὲν κακὸν παθεῖν, μήτε μαλθακόν τε καὶ ἀραιόν, ὥστ’ ἐκδέξασθαί τε καὶ ὑπεῖξαι, ἁπαλὸν δὲ καὶ τεθηλὸσ καὶ ἔναιμον καὶ πυκνόν, οἱο͂ν ἧπαρ, διὰ μὲν τὴν πυκνότητα καὶ πλατύτητα ἀνθέστηκέ τε καὶ οὐχ ὑπείκει, φῦσα δ’ ἐπισχομένη αὔξεταί τε καὶ ἰσχυροτέρη γίνεται καὶ ὁρμᾷ μάλιστα πρὸσ τὸ ἀντιπαῖον. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxii.20)
  • γυνὴ δέ, θῆλυσ φῦσα κοὐκ ἀνδρὸσ φύσιν, μόνη με δὴ καθεῖλε φασγάνου δίχα. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode6)
  • ὅταν ἐσ ταύτασ ἄνεμοσ ξηρὸσ μετεωρισθεὶσ κατακλῃσθῇ, ἔνδοθεν αὐτὰσ ὥσπερ κύστιν φυσᾷ, κἄπειθ’ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ ῥήξασ αὐτὰσ ἔξω φέρεται σοβαρὸσ διὰ τὴν πυκνότητα, ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥοίβδου καὶ τῆσ ῥύμησ αὐτὸσ ἑαυτὸν κατακάων. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests 1:14)
  • ἔτνοσ κυάμινον διότι τὴν μὲν γαστέρα φυσᾷ, τὸ δὲ πῦρ οὔ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 74 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a pair of bellows

  2. a stream or jet

  3. an air-bubble

Related

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

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