φῦσιγξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φῡσῐγγη (phūsingē)

Etymology

From φῦσᾰ (phûsa, “bellows; bladder”), with a typical Pre-Greek suffix -ιγξ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.siŋks/ → /ˈɸy.siŋks/ → /ˈfi.siŋks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.siŋks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.siŋks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸy.siŋks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfy.siŋks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.siŋks/

Noun

φῦσῐγξ • (phûsinx) f (genitive φῡ́σῐγγος); third declension

1. blister on the heel caused by a burn
2. stalk of garlic or the outer coat of a clove or garlic
3. particular kind of garlic

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φῦσῐγξ; τῆς φῡ́σῐγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῦσῐγξ hē phûsinx	τὼ φῡ́σῐγγε tṑ phū́singe	αἱ φῡ́σῐγγες hai phū́singes
Genitive	τῆς φῡ́σῐγγος tês phū́singos	τοῖν φῡσῐ́γγοιν toîn phūsíngoin	τῶν φῡσῐ́γγων tôn phūsíngōn
Dative	τῇ φῡ́σῐγγῐ têi phū́singi	τοῖν φῡσῐ́γγοιν toîn phūsíngoin	ταῖς φῡ́σῐγξῐ / φῡ́σῐγξῐν taîs phū́sinxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φῡ́σῐγγᾰ tḕn phū́singa	τὼ φῡ́σῐγγε tṑ phū́singe	τᾱ̀ς φῡ́σῐγγᾰς tā̀s phū́singas
Vocative	φῦσῐγξ phûsinx	φῡ́σῐγγε phū́singe	φῡ́σῐγγες phū́singes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φῡσῐγγόομαι (phūsingóomai)
• φῡσῐγγῐστής (phūsingistḗs)

 

Descendants

• → Persian: فشنگ (fešang)

Further reading

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