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ἰξύς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰξύς ἰξύος

Structure: ἰξυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the waist

Declension

Third 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

  • Διάτασισ οἱο͂ν μηροῦ, τὸ παρὰ σφυρὸν δεδέσθαι, καὶ ἄνω τοῦ γούνατοσ, ταῦτα μὲν ἐσ τὸ αὐτὸ τείνοντα‧ παρὰ δ’ ἰξύϊ, καὶ περὶ μασχάλασ, καὶ κατὰ περίνεον, καὶ μηρὸν, τὰ μεταξὺ, τῆσ ἀρχῆσ τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθοσ, τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ νῶτον τείνοντα, ταῦτα δ’ ἐσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἅπαντα τείνοντα, προσδεθέντα ἢ πρὸσ ὑπεροειδέα, ἢ πρὸσ ὄνον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 38.10)
  • ὧν ὁ μὲν ἰξύι θηρὸσ ἐπεμβεβαὼσ γόνυ βρίθει, εὐπτόρθων παλάμαισ δραξάμενοσ κεράων· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 962)
  • ἦμοσ δ’ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλοσ Ηὤσ, αὐτίχ’ ὁ μὲν χλαῖνάν τε χιτῶνά τε ἕννυτ’ Ὀδυσσεύσ, αὐτὴ δ’ ἀργύφεον φᾶροσ μέγα ἕννυτο νύμφη, λεπτὸν καὶ χαρίεν, περὶ δὲ ζώνην βάλετ’ ἰξυῖ καλὴν χρυσείην, κεφαλῇ δ’ ἐφύπερθε καλύπτρην. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 24:1)
  • αὐτὴ δ’ ἀργύφεον φᾶροσ μέγα ἕννυτο νύμφη, λεπτὸν καὶ χαρίεν, περὶ δὲ ζώνην βάλετ’ ἰξυῖ καλὴν χρυσείην, κεφαλῇ δ’ ἐπέθηκε καλύπτρην. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 67:3)

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

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