Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πᾶσ δέ οἱ αὐχὴν θυμοῦ ἐνεπλήσθη, πυρσαὶ δ’ ἔφριξαν ἔθειραι σκυζομένῳ, κυρτὴ δὲ ῥάχισ γένετ’ ἠύτε τόξον, πάντοθεν εἰληθέντοσ ὑπὸ λαγόνασ τε καὶ ἰξύν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 104)
  • καὶ Τρίτωνεσ δύο παρὰ τοὺσ ἵππουσ εἰσὶ χρυσοῖ, τὰ μετ’ ἰξὺν ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ οὗτοι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 15:1)
  • κεῖται δὲ λίθου λευκοῦ καὶ Ἄρτεμισ τὰ ἐσ ἰξὺν μόνον εἰργασμένη καὶ Ἡρακλῆσ τὰ κάτω τοῖσ Ἑρμαῖσ τοῖσ τετραγώνοισ εἰκασμένοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 14:4)

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

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