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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

  • οὐ γὰρ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ καθάπερ ἰξῷ τινι προσέχεται τοῖσ τοιούτοισ ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλει ἀπαλλάττεσθαι ῥᾳδίωσ ἅτε αὐτοῖσ πάλαι προστετηκυῖα· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 14:11)
  • εἴτε σὺ γ’ ὀρνεόφοιτον ὑπὲρ καλαμῖδα παλύνασ ἰξῷ ὀρειβατέεισ, εἴτε λαγοκτονέεισ, Πᾶνα κάλει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 111)
  • προδόται ψυχῆσ, παίδων κύνεσ, αἰὲν ἐν ἰξῷ Κύπριδοσ ὀφθαλμοὶ βλέμματα χριόμενοι, ἡρπάσατ’ ἄλλον Ἔρωτ’ , ἄρνεσ λύκον, οἱᾶ κορώνη σκορπίον, ὡσ τέφρη πῦρ ὑποθαλπόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 921)
  • ᾗ γὰρ ἂν ὄμμα ῥίψῃσ, ὡσ ἰξῷ τοῦτο προσαμπέχεται, τῇ μὲν γὰρ Θεόδωροσ ἄγει ποτὶ πίονα σαρκὸσ ἀκμὴν καὶ γυίων ἄνθοσ ἀκηράσιον τῇ δὲ Φιλοκλῆοσ χρύσεον ῥέθοσ, ὃσ τὸ καθ’ ὕψοσ οὐ μέγασ, οὐρανίη δ’ ἀμφιτέθηλε χάρισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 932)
  • ναὶ Κύπριν, ἁλώσει, ὦ δύσερωσ, ἰξῷ πυκνὰ προσιπταμένη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1322)

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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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