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φῦσιγξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φῦσιγξ φῦσιγγος

Structure: φυσιγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the stalk of garlic, the outer coat of a clove of garlic.

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

  • Διοκλῆσ δ’ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν πρώτῳ Ὑγιεινῶν φησιν ἑψανὰ ἄγρια εἶναι θρίδακα ταύτησ κρατίστην τὴν μέλαιναν, κάρδαμον, κορίαννον, σίναπυ, κρόμμυον τούτου εἶδοσ ἀσκαλώνιον καὶ γήτειον, σκόροδον, φύσιγγεσ, σικυόσ, πέπων, μήκων, καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 78 1:7)
  • Ἢν δὲ νοσέοντα ἤδη τὴν σύριγγα παραλάβῃσ, λαβὼν σκορόδου φύσιγγα νεαρὴν, ἀνακλίνασ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὕπτιον, τὰ σκέλεα διαγαγὼν τὸ μὲν ἔνθα, τὸ δὲ ἔνθα, τὴν φύσιγγα καθιέναι ἔστ’ ἂν προσκόψῃ, μετρῆσαί τε τὸ βάθοσ τῆσ συρίγγοσ τῇ φύσιγγι, καὶ σεσέλιοσ δὲ Ῥίζαν κόψασ ὡσ λεπτοτάτην, ὕδωρ ἐπιχέασ, βρέχειν τέσσαρασ ἡμέρασ‧ καὶ προνηστεύσασ πινέτω μέλιτι παραμίσγων τὸ ὕδωρ κατὰ τρεῖσ κυάθουσ‧ ἐν τούτῳ κάθαιρε καὶ τὰσ ἀσκαρίδασ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 3.1)

Synonyms

  1. the stalk of garlic

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

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