πομφόλυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πομφός (pomphós, “blister”) + infix -λ- (-l-) + ending -υγ-ς (-ug-s), a Pre-Greek suffix. Possibly related to φλύζω or the word ἡ πέμφιξ, τῆς πέμφῑγος “blast, breath, bubble”, with the ending similar to *-φλυξ as in οἰνόφλυξ (“drunkard”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pom.pʰó.lyks/ → /pomˈɸo.lyks/ → /pomˈfo.liks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pom.pʰó.lyks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pomˈpʰo.lyks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pomˈɸo.lyks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pomˈfo.lyks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pomˈfo.liks/

Noun

πομφόλῠξ • (pomphólux) f (genitive πομφόλῠγος); third declension (also as masculine accusative in Galen)

1. (medicine) blister (in Hippocrates, Plato)
2. bubble (Plato)
3. head ornament (Aristophanes, Frogs)
4. (chemistry) zinc oxide

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πομφόλῠξ; τῆς πομφόλῠγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πομφόλῠξ hē pomphólux	τὼ πομφόλῠγε tṑ pomphóluge	αἱ πομφόλῠγες hai pomphóluges
Genitive	τῆς πομφόλῠγος tês pomphólugos	τοῖν πομφολῠ́γοιν toîn pompholúgoin	τῶν πομφολῠ́γων tôn pompholúgōn
Dative	τῇ πομφόλῠγῐ têi pomphólugi	τοῖν πομφολῠ́γοιν toîn pompholúgoin	ταῖς πομφόλῠξῐ / πομφόλῠξῐν taîs pomphóluxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πομφόλῠγᾰ tḕn pomphóluga	τὼ πομφόλῠγε tṑ pomphóluge	τᾱ̀ς πομφόλῠγᾰς tā̀s pomphólugas
Vocative	πομφόλῠξ pomphólux	πομφόλῠγε pomphóluge	πομφόλῠγες pomphóluges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• πομφός m (pomphós)
• φλύκταινα f (phlúktaina)

Related terms

• ἀπομφολῠ'γωτος (apompholu'gōtos)
• πομφολῠγηρόν m (pompholugērón)
• πομφολυγίζω (pompholugízō, “bubble up”)
• πομφολῠγοπάφλασμα n (pompholugopáphlasma, “bubble-splash”)
• πομφολῠγόω (pompholugóō, “cause to bubble”)
• πομφολῠγώδης (pompholugṓdēs, adjective)
• πομφολῠγωτός (pompholugōtós, adjective)
• πομφολύζω (pompholúzō, “I bubble”)
• πομφός m (pomphós, “blister”)

Descendants

• →? Catalan: pampallugues
• → English: pompholyx, pompholix
• Greek: πομφόλυγα (pomfólyga), πομφόλυγας (pomfólygas), (Katharevousa) πομφόλυξ (pomfólyx)
• → Latin: famfalūca
  • Italian: fanfaluca

Further reading

• Hofmann, J. B. (1949) “πομφόλυξ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎^[2] (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg
• “πομφόλυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πομφόλυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers

Greek

Alternative forms

• πομφόλυγα f (pomfólyga) (standard)
• πομφόλυγας m (pomfólygas) (less common)

Etymology

Ancient Greek πομφόλῠξ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɱˈfolix/

Noun

πομφόλυξ • (pomfólyx) f (plural πομφόλυγες) (Katharevousa)

1. (medicine, formal) blister

Synonyms

• πομφός m (pomfós)
• φλύκταινα f (flýktaina)