ἰξός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

An old cultural word, identical with synonymous Latin viscum (“mistletoe”). It has been compared with Proto-Slavic *višьňa (“sour cherry”) and Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō (“sour cherry”). DELG wonders whether these words come from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱs-, but given the structure it is rather a European loanword.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ik.sós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ikˈsos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ikˈsos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ikˈsos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ikˈsos/

Noun

ἰξός • (ixós) m (genitive ἰξοῦ); second declension

European mistletoe (Viscum album)
mistletoe berry
birdlime prepared from the mistletoe berry
oak gum, used for the same purpose
(in general) any sticky substance
(figuratively) skinflint, miser

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἰξός; τοῦ ἰξοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἰξός ho ixós	τὼ ἰξώ tṑ ixṓ	οἱ ἰξοί hoi ixoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἰξοῦ toû ixoû	τοῖν ἰξοῖν toîn ixoîn	τῶν ἰξῶν tôn ixôn
Dative	τῷ ἰξῷ tôi ixôi	ἰξοῖν ixoîn	τοῖς ἰξοῖς toîs ixoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἰξόν tòn ixón	ἰξώ ixṓ	τοὺς ἰξούς toùs ixoús
Vocative	ἰξέ ixé	ἰξώ ixṓ	ἰξοί ixoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἰξεύω (ixeúō)
ἰξία (ixía)
ἰξίας (ixías)
ἰξίνη (ixínē)
ἰξίον (ixíon)
ἰξοβόλος (ixobólos)
ἰξοβόρος (ixobóros)
ἰξοειδές (ixoeidés)
ἰξοεργός (ixoergós)
ἰξόομαι (ixóomai)
ἰξοποιέω (ixopoiéō)
ἰξοφάγος (ixophágos)
ἰξοφόρος (ixophóros)
ἰξώδης (ixṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: ιξός (ixós)

References

ἰξός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἰξός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἰξός 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