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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

  • κάμινον φυσῶν ἐν ἔργοισ καύματοσ, τριπλασίωσ ἥλιοσ ἐκκαίων ὄρη. ἀτμίδασ πυρώδεισ ἐκφυσῶν καὶ ἐκλάμπων ἀκτῖνασ ἀμαυροῖ ὀφθαλμούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 43:4)
  • ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἔκτισά σε οὐχ ὡσ χαλκεὺσ φυσῶν ἄνθρακασ καὶ ἐκφέρων σκεῦοσ εἰσ ἔργον. ἐγὼ δὲ ἔκτισά σε οὐκ εἰσ ἀπώλειαν φθεῖραι (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 54:16)
  • φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:21)
  • κἀν τῷδε πᾶσ τισ, ὡσ ὁρᾷ βουφόρβια πίπτοντα καὶ πορθούμεν’, ἐξωπλίζετο, κόχλουσ τε φυσῶν συλλέγων τ’ ἐγχωρίουσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 4:3)
  • καὶ πῶσ Ἀχιλεὺσ λέκτρων ἀπλακὼν οὐ μέγα φυσῶν θυμὸν ἐπαρεῖ σοὶ σῇ τ’ ἀλόχῳ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:7)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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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