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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

  • ὡσ ἡδὺσ ἐν πόρπακι σῷ κεῖται τύποσ ἴτυόσ τ’ ἐν εὐτόρνοισι περιδρόμοισ ἱδρώσ, ὃν ἐκ μετώπου πολλάκισ πόνουσ ἔχων ἔσταζεν Ἕκτωρ προστιθεὶσ γενειάδι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:14)
  • περιδρόμῳ μὲν ἴτυοσ ἕδρᾳ Περσέα λαιμοτόμαν ὑπὲρ ἁλὸσ ποτανοῖσι πεδί‐ λοισι φυὰν Γοργόνοσ ἴ‐ σχειν, Διὸσ ἀγγέλῳ σὺν Ἑρ‐ μᾷ, τῷ Μαί‐ ασ ἀγροτῆρι κούρῳ· (Euripides, choral, strophe 22)
  • εἰ δ’ ὄμμ’ ὑπερσχὸν ἴτυοσ ἅτεροσ μάθοι, λόγχην ἐνώμα, στόματι προφθῆναι θέλων. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • Ἐπεὶ τὰ δεινὰ μηδὲν ἠγνόευν ἔτι, σαγῶν ͅ ἀγόρασαν ἄλφιτα, ξύρησ α δὲ τμήξασ ἀπ’ ἴτυοσ ͅ ὄχμ’, ἵνα στύφω δέρασ τἠμῇ γυναικὶ γηραῶν μυρͅμηκιῶν μηδ’ ἀμπέχω καρῖδα · (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 582)
  • ὡσ δὲ τά τε ξίφη πολλοῖσ ἄχρηστα ἦν τὰ μὲν ἀπεστομωμένα τὰσ ἀκμάσ, τὰ δὲ κατεαγότα, καὶ τῶν ἀσπίδων τὰ πέριξ ἴτυοσ ἐχόμενα διετέθρυπτο, ἔξαιμοί τε οἱ πλείουσ καὶ καταβελεῖσ καὶ παράλυτοι τὰ μέλη διὰ πλῆθοσ τραυμάτων ἦσαν, καταφρονήσαντεσ αὐτῶν οἱ Τυρρηνοὶ χωροῦσιν ὁμόσε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 21 6:1)

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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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