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ἰξός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 식물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰξός ἰξοῦ

Structure: ἰξ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mistletoe
  2. birdlime, the mistletoe berry

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ τῶν λαγῶν λέγεται ὅτι παραθεόντων εἴχοντο ἐν ταῖσ θριξὶν αἱ ἄκανθαι καὶ ὅτι οὕτωσ ἡλίσκοντο οἱ λαγῶ, καθάπερ ὑπὸ ἰξοῦ αἱ ὄρνιθεσ ἢ τοῖσ ἀγκίστροισ οἱ ἰχθύεσ, σιδήρῳ δὲ ὅτι διακοπῆναι οὐ χαλεπὴ ἦν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 22 8:1)
  • γενομένου δὲ τοῦ ἰξοῦ ῥᾳδίωσ ἤδη ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἁλισκόμενα μετενόουν καὶ τὴν γλαῦκα ἐθαύμαζον ἐπὶ τῇ ξυμβουλῇ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 25:1)
  • εἶτ’ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ἰξοῦ τρύβλιον θέντεσ ἀπίασι καὶ λοχῶσι πόρρωθεν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 58:9)
  • ἐπὰν δὲ καταπηδῆσαν τὸ θηρίον ἐγχρίσηται τοῦ ἰξοῦ, καταμύσαντοσ δ’ ἀποληφθῇ τὰ βλέφαρα, ἐπιόντεσ ζωγροῦσιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 58:10)

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

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