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ἴτυς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴτυς ἴτυος

Structure: ἰτυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a circle made of willow, the felloe, the edge or rim, the round shield

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

  • ἀμφὶ δ’ ἴτυν ῥέεν Ὠκεανὸσ πλήθοντι ἐοικώσ, πᾶν δὲ συνεῖχε σάκοσ πολυδαίδαλον, οἳ δὲ κατ’ αὐτὸν κύκνοι ἀερσιπόται μεγάλ’ ἤπυον, οἵ ῥά τε πολλοὶ νῆχον ἐπ’ ἄκρον ὕδωρ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 28:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ σοί, Ποδάγρα, πρώταισ ἐάροσ ἐν ὡρ́αισ μύσται τελοῦμεν οἴκτουσ, ὅτε πᾶσ χλοητόκοισι ποίαισ τέθηλε λειμών, Ζεφύρου δὲ δένδρα πνοιαῖσ ἁπαλοῖσ κομᾷ πετήλοισ, ἁ δύσγαμοσ κατ̓ οἴκουσ μερόπων θροεῖ χελιδών, καὶ νυκτέροισ καθ̓ ὕλαν τὸν Ἴτυν στένει δακρύουσ1̓ Ἀτθὶσ γόοισ ἀηδών. (Lucian, 9)
  • ‐ λεύσσεισ οὖν ἐπ’ Ἐγκελάδῳ γοργωπὸν πάλλουσαν ἴτυν ‐ ‐ λεύσσω Παλλάδ’, ἐμὰν θεόν. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 24)
  • ἄγε σύννομέ μοι παῦσαι μὲν ὕπνου, λῦσον δὲ νόμουσ ἱερῶν ὕμνων, οὓσ διὰ θείου στόματοσ θρηνεῖσ τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ σὸν πολύδακρυν Ἴτυν· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, monody1)
  • ἡ δὲ σελήνη κἂν ὅλον ποτὲ κρύψῃ τὸν ἣλιον, οὐκ ἔχει χρόνον οὐδὲ πλάτοσ ἡ ἔκλειψισ, ἀλλὰ περιφαίνεταί τισ αὐγὴ περὶ τὴν ἴτυν, οὐκ ἐῶσα βαθεῖαν γενέσθαι τὴν σκιὰν καὶ ἄκρατον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 19 10:2)

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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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