πτύον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πτέον (ptéon) — Attic (later attic accusative)

Etymology

Stem with πτ- instead of π- (as in πτόλεμος (ptólemos) - πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”), πτόλις (ptólis) - πόλις (pólis, “city”). From Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with pūrus. Unrelated to πτύω (ptúō, “spit”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ptý.on/ → /ˈpty.on/ → /ˈpti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ptý.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpty.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpty.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpty.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpti.on/

Noun

πτῠ́ον • (ptúon) n (genitive πτῠ́ου); second declension

1. a winnowing shovel or fan
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.588
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 208
2. (in Cyprus) a corn-measure; hence δίπτυον (díptuon, “half a μέδινος”)

Inflection

• poet. genitive singular: πτυόφιν (ptuóphin)

Second declension of τὸ πτῠ́ον; τοῦ πτῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πτῠ́ον tò ptúon	τὼ πτῠ́ω tṑ ptúō	τᾰ̀ πτῠ́ᾰ tà ptúa
Genitive	τοῦ πτῠ́ου toû ptúou	τοῖν πτῠ́οιν toîn ptúoin	τῶν πτῠ́ων tôn ptúōn
Dative	τῷ πτῠ́ῳ tôi ptúōi	τοῖν πτῠ́οιν toîn ptúoin	τοῖς πτῠ́οις toîs ptúois
Accusative	τὸ πτῠ́ον tò ptúon	τὼ πτῠ́ω tṑ ptúō	τᾰ̀ πτῠ́ᾰ tà ptúa
Vocative	πτῠ́ον ptúon	πτῠ́ω ptúō	πτῠ́ᾰ ptúa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πτυάριον (ptuárion)

Further reading

• “πτύον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτύον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πτύον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πτύον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πτύον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4425 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fan idem, page 305.
  • winnowing-fan idem, page 982.