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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

  • μάλιστα δὲ σωφρονητέον ἐν ταῖσ τῶν ὀρῶν ἢ τειχῶν ἢ ποταμῶν ἑρμηνείαισ, ὡσ μὴ δύναμιν λόγων ἀπειροκάλωσ παρεπιδείκνυσθαι δοκοίησ καὶ τὸ σαυτοῦ δρᾶν παρεὶσ τὴν ἱστορίαν, ἀλλ̓ ὀλίγον προσαψάμενοσ, τοῦ χρησίμου καὶ σαφοῦσ ἕνεκα, μεταβήσῃ ἐκφυγὼν τὸν ἰξὸν τὸν ἐν τῷ πράγματι καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἅπασαν λιχνείαν, οἱο͂ν ὁρᾷσ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ὁ μεγαλόφρων ποιεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 571)
  • τρία δὲ γένη κιχλῶν Ἀριστοτέλησ εἶναι ἱστορεῖ, ὧν τὴν πρώτην καὶ μεγίστην κίσσῃ πάρισον εἶναι, ἣν καὶ καλεῖσθαι ἰξοφάγον, ἐπειδὴ ἰξὸν ἐσθίει τὴν δὲ τῷ κοσσύφῳ ἴσην, ἣν ὀνομάζεσθαι τριχάδα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 689)
  • Ιὤν δὲ ἐν Φοίνικι ἢ Καινεῖ δρυὸσ ἱδρῶτα εἴρηκε τὸν ἰξὸν ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 74 2:2)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ σιτίον ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ ἡ βάλανοσ καὶ ποτὸν τὸ μελίτειον, ὄψον δὲ παρεῖχε τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν νεμομένων τε καὶ πτηνῶν, θήρασ ὄργανον φέρουσα τὸν ἰξόν. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 3 4:1)
  • δρῦσ γὰρ ἐπ’ ὀρνίθεσσι φέρει τὸν ἀνάρσιον ἰξόν, ἁ δὲ βότρυν στέργει δ’ ὑμνοπόλουσ Βρόμιοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 87 1:2)
  • ἷξόν τ’ ἐπὶ θῖνα θαλάσσασ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 32:1)

Related

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

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