πέμφιξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly a Pre-Greek word, together with πομφός (pomphós, “blister”) and πομφόλυξ (pomphólux, “bubble”). They might be onomatopoeic in origin; compare similar expressions for swelling, like Lithuanian pampti (“to swell”), pempùs (“fat-bodied”), pumpùlis (“roundish, thick-bellied thing”). Compare also βέμβιξ (bémbix, “spinning top”) and βόμβος (bómbos, “humming, buzzing”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pém.pʰiks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpem.pʰiks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpem.ɸiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpem.fiks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpem.fiks/
Noun
πέμφῐξ • (pémphix) f (genitive πέμφῑγος); third declension
- breath, blast
- ray, sunbeam
- Synonym: ἀκτίς (aktís)
- drop (of water or blood)
- Synonyms: ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás), ψιάς (psiás)
- cloud, rain cloud
- pustule or part surrounding a pustule
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πέμφῐξ; τῆς πέμφῑγος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πέμφῐξ hē pémphix | τὼ πέμφῑγε tṑ pémphīge | αἱ πέμφῑγες hai pémphīges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πέμφῑγος tês pémphīgos | τοῖν πεμφῑ́γοιν toîn pemphī́goin | τῶν πεμφῑ́γων tôn pemphī́gōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πέμφῑγῐ têi pémphīgi | τοῖν πεμφῑ́γοιν toîn pemphī́goin | ταῖς πέμφῑξῐ / πέμφῑξῐν taîs pémphīxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πέμφῑγᾰ tḕn pémphīga | τὼ πέμφῑγε tṑ pémphīge | τᾱ̀ς πέμφῑγᾰς tā̀s pémphīgas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέμφῐξ pémphix | πέμφῑγε pémphīge | πέμφῑγες pémphīges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πεμφιγώδης (pemphigṓdēs)
Descendants
- → English: pemphigus
- → Translingual: Pemphigus
Further reading
- “πέμφιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέμφιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN