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πτύον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτύον πτύου

Structure: πτυ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ptu/w

Sense

  1. a winnowing shovel or fan
  2. (in Cyprus) a corn-measure; hence δίπτυον ‎(díptuon, “half a μέδινος”)

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πτύον πτύω πτύα
Genitive πτύου πτύοιν πτύων
Dative πτύῳ πτύοιν πτύοις
Accusative πτύον πτύω πτύα
Vocative πτύον πτύω πτύα

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

  • σιτουμένην δύστηνον ἀθλίαν φάβα, μέσακτα πλευρὰ πρὸσ πτύοισ πεπλεγμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a corn-measure

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