φῦσιγξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φῡσῐγγη (phūsĭngē)

Etymology

From φῦσᾰ (phûsă, “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 • (phûsĭnx) 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 phûsĭnx	τὼ φῡ́σῐγγε tṑ phū́sĭnge	αἱ φῡ́σῐγγες hai phū́sĭnges
Genitive	τῆς φῡ́σῐγγος tês phū́sĭngos	τοῖν φῡσῐ́γγοιν toîn phūsĭ́ngoin	τῶν φῡσῐ́γγων tôn phūsĭ́ngōn
Dative	τῇ φῡ́σῐγγῐ têi phū́sĭngĭ	τοῖν φῡσῐ́γγοιν toîn phūsĭ́ngoin	ταῖς φῡ́σῐγξῐ / φῡ́σῐγξῐν taîs phū́sĭnxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν φῡ́σῐγγᾰ tḕn phū́sĭngă	τὼ φῡ́σῐγγε tṑ phū́sĭnge	τᾱ̀ς φῡ́σῐγγᾰς tā̀s phū́sĭngăs
Vocative	φῦσῐγξ phûsĭnx	φῡ́σῐγγε phū́sĭnge	φῡ́σῐγγες phū́sĭnges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φῡσῐγγῐστής (phūsĭngĭstḗs)
• φῡσῐγγόομαι (phūsĭngóomai)

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