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φύσκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύσκη

Structure: φυσκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fusa/w

Sense

  1. a sausage or black-pudding

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

  • ὅτι δ’ οὕτω τὰσ ῥαφανῖδασ εἴρηκε δῆλον Ἀριστοφάνησ ποιεῖ περὶ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ἀρχαιότητοσ ἐν Δαναίσι γράφων καὶ αὐτὸσ καὶ λέγων ὁ χορὸσ δ’ ὠρχεῖτ’ ἂν ἐναψάμενοσ δάπιδασ καὶ στρωματόδεσμα, διαμασχαλίσασ αὑτὸν σχελίσιν καὶ φύσκαισ καὶ ῥαφανῖσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 48 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a sausage or black-pudding

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

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