ἰξύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to ὀσφῦς (osphûs), δελφύς (delphús) and νηδύς (nēdús). Etymological relation with Latin īlia (“side of the body”) is improbable. Furnée proposed to connect ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”); if correct, the word is Pre-Greek because of the variation.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ik.sy̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ikˈsys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ikˈsys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ikˈsys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ikˈsis/
Noun
ἰξῡ́ς • (ixū́s) f (genitive ἰξῠ́ος); third declension
- (anatomy) waist, loins
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἰξῡ́ς; τῆς ἰξῠ́ος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἰξῡ́ς hē ixū́s | τὼ ἰξῠ́ε tṑ ixúe | αἱ ἰξῠ́ες hai ixúes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἰξῠ́ος tês ixúos | τοῖν ἰξῠ́οιν toîn ixúoin | τῶν ἰξῠ́ων tôn ixúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἰξῠ́ῐ̈ têi ixúï | τοῖν ἰξῠ́οιν toîn ixúoin | ταῖς ἰξῠ́σῐ / ἰξῠ́σῐν taîs ixúsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἰξῡ́ν tḕn ixū́n | τὼ ἰξῠ́ε tṑ ixúe | τᾱ̀ς ἰξῦς / ἰξῠ́ᾰς tā̀s ixûs / ixúas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἰξῡ́ ixū́ | ἰξῠ́ε ixúe | ἰξῠ́ες ixúes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰξύα (ixúa)
- ἰξυόθεν (ixuóthen)
References
- ἰξύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἰξύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰξύς 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