φύσκη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φύσκα (phúska), φύσκος (phúskos)
Etymology
From φυσάω (phusáō, “to blow, puff”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰýs.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰys.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸys.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfys.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfis.ci/
Noun
φῠ́σκη • (phŭ́skē) f (genitive φῠ́σκης); first declension
- (anatomy) large intestine
- blood pudding, sausage
- blister or weal on the hand
- gall on a plant
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ φῠ́σκη hē phŭ́skē |
τὼ φῠ́σκᾱ tṑ phŭ́skā |
αἱ φῠ́σκαι hai phŭ́skai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς φῠ́σκης tês phŭ́skēs |
τοῖν φῠ́σκαιν toîn phŭ́skain |
τῶν φῠσκῶν tôn phŭskôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ φῠ́σκῃ tēî phŭ́skēi |
τοῖν φῠ́σκαιν toîn phŭ́skain |
ταῖς φῠ́σκαις taîs phŭ́skais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν φῠ́σκην tḕn phŭ́skēn |
τὼ φῠ́σκᾱ tṑ phŭ́skā |
τᾱ̀ς φῠ́σκᾱς tā̀s phŭ́skās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῠ́σκη phŭ́skē |
φῠ́σκᾱ phŭ́skā |
φῠ́σκαι phŭ́skai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φυσκία (phuskía)
- φύσκιον (phúskion)
- φυσκών (phuskṓn)
Descendants
- Greek: φούσκα (foúska)
- ⇒ Byzantine Greek: φυσκίον (phuskíon, diminutive)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φῦσα (> DER > 6. φύσκη )”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1599-600
Further reading
- “φύσκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φύσκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φύσκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette