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

  • ἐν Ἀναζάρβῳ νωθρὸσ ἐγὼ τελέθεσκον ἀπ’ ἰξύοσ ἐσ πόδασ ἄκρουσ τῆσ πρὶν ἐνεργείησ δηρὸν ἀτεμβόμενοσ, ζωῆσ καὶ θανάτοιο μεταίχμιον, Αἴ̈δι γείτων, μοῦνον ἀναπνείων, τἆλλα δὲ πάντα νέκυσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5971)
  • πρὶν μὲν ἐπὶ χλωροῖσ ἐριθηλέοσ ἔρνεσι πεύκασ ἥμενοσ, ἢ σκιερᾶσ ἀκροκόμου πίτυοσ, ἔκρεκεσ εὐτάρσοιο δι’ ἰξύοσ ἀχέτα μολπὰν τέττιξ, οἰονόμοισ ἐλαφρότατον χέλυοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2131)

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

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