πτύξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of πτύσσω (ptússō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ptýks/ → /ptyks/ → /ptiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ptýks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ptyks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ptyks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ptyks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ptiks/

Noun

πτύξ • (ptúx) f (genitive πτῠχός); third declension (chiefly in the plural)

1. fold (in cloth etc.)
2. plate (of metal, leather etc.)
3. leaf (of a writing tablet etc.)
4. side of a hill, cleft, glen, corrie

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πτῠ́ξ; τῆς πτῠχός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πτῠ́ξ hē ptúx	τὼ πτῠ́χε tṑ ptúkhe	αἱ πτῠ́χες hai ptúkhes
Genitive	τῆς πτῠχός tês ptukhós	τοῖν πτῠχοῖν toîn ptukhoîn	τῶν πτῠχῶν tôn ptukhôn
Dative	τῇ πτῠχῐ́ têi ptukhí	τοῖν πτῠχοῖν toîn ptukhoîn	ταῖς πτῠξῐ́ / πτῠξῐ́ν taîs ptuxí(n)
Accusative	τὴν πτῠ́χᾰ tḕn ptúkha	τὼ πτῠ́χε tṑ ptúkhe	τᾱ̀ς πτῠ́χᾰς tā̀s ptúkhas
Vocative	πτῠ́ξ ptúx	πτῠ́χε ptúkhe	πτῠ́χες ptúkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• πτύξις (ptúxis)
• πτῠχή (ptukhḗ)

Further reading

• “πτύξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πτύξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πτύξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πτύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτύξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter