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ἴυγξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴυγξ ἴυγγος

Structure: ἰυγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: i)u/zw

Sense

  1. Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla
  2. (figuratively) spell, charm
  3. passionate yearning

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 οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων τῇ σῇ ληφθέντεσ ἰύγγι συνεχώρησάν σοι καὶ κοινῇ τἀγκλήματα πάντ’ ἐπέτρεψαν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests3)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποικίλον καὶ ἀσθενέστερον, ὁ δὲ μῦροσ λειόχρωσ καὶ ἰσχυρὸσ καὶ τὸ χρῶμα ὅμοιον ἔχει ἰύγγι ὀδόντασ τε ἔσωθεν καὶ ἔξωθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 913)
  • ἰύ̈γγι δ’ ἕλκομαι ἦτορ νουμηνίᾳ θιγέμεν. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 10:2)
  • Καὶ γὰρ ἔρρωται παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἥδε ἡ δόξα, φθαρτὰ μὲν εἶναι τὰ σώματα καὶ τὴν ὕλην οὐ μόνιμον αὐτῶν, τὰσ δὲ ψυχὰσ ἀθανάτουσ ἀεὶ διαμένειν, καὶ συμπλέκεσθαι μὲν ἐκ τοῦ λεπτοτάτου φοιτώσασ αἰθέροσ ὥσπερ εἱρκταῖσ τοῖσ σώμασιν ἰύγγί τινι φυσικῇ κατασπωμένασ, ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἀνεθῶσι τῶν κατὰ σάρκα δεσμῶν, οἱᾶ δὴ μακρᾶσ δουλείασ ἀπηλλαγμένασ τότε χαίρειν καὶ μετεώρουσ φέρεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 200:1)
  • ἀνθ’ ὧν ἅπαντασ ταῖσ πρεπούσαισ ἐπῳδαῖσ ἐφέλκεσθε, οὐκ ἰύγγι ὑποκινοῦντεσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ καλλίστῳ τῶν φαρμάκων, τῷ λόγῳ, ὅπερ οἱ θεοὶ πάντων ἀντάξιον ἀνθρώπῳ μόνῳ τῶν ἄλλων ἐδωρήσαντο. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 92:5)

Synonyms

  1. spell

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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