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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φύσκη φύσκᾱ φύσκαι
Genitive φύσκης φύσκαιν φυσκῶν
Dative φύσκῃ φύσκαιν φύσκαις
Accusative φύσκην φύσκᾱ φύσκᾱς
Vocative φύσκη φύσκᾱ φύσκαι

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ κινήσω γέ σου τὸν πρωκτὸν ἀντὶ φύσκησ. (Aristotle, Agon, epirrheme31)
  • σπλάγχν’ ὀπτᾶται, χναῦμ’ ἡρ́πασται, κρέασ ἐξ ἅλμησ ἐξῄρηται, τόμοσ ἀλλᾶντοσ, τόμοσ ἠνύστρου, χορδῆσ ἕτεροσ, φύσκησ ἕτεροσ διαλαιμοτομεῖθ’ ὑπὸ τῶν ἔνδον κρατὴρ ἐξερροίβδητ’ οἴνου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 2:1)
  • διδόασι τῶν συνιόντων ἑκάστῳ τυρὸν χλωρὸν καὶ γαστρὸσ καὶ φύσκησ τόμον καὶ τραγήματα σῦκά τε ξηρὰ καὶ κυάμουσ καὶ φασήλουσ χλωρούσ, κοπίζει δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Σπαρτιατῶν ὁ βουλόμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 16 3:1)
  • καὶ δῆθ’ ὑπάρχει τέμαχοσ ἐγχέλειον ὑμῖν, τευθίσ, ἄρνειον κρέασ, φύσκησ τόμοσ, ποὺσ ἑφθόσ, ἧπαρ, πλευρόν, ὀρνίθεια πλήθει πολλά, τυρὸσ ἐν μέλιτι, μερὶσ κρεῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. a sausage or black-pudding

Similar forms

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

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