πομφόλυξ

From πομφός (pomphós, “blister”) + infix -λ- (-l-) + ending -υγ-ς (-ug-s), a Pre-Greek suffix. Possibly related to φλύζω^[1] or the word ἡ πέμφιξ, τῆς πέμφῑγος “blast, breath, bubble”, with the ending similar to *-φλυξ as in οἰνόφλυξ (“drunkard”). ^[2]

πομφόλῠξ • (pomphólŭx) 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

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

• ἀπομφολῠ'γωτος (apompholŭ'gōtos)
• πομφολῠγηρόν m (pompholŭgērón)
• πομφολυγίζω (pompholugízō, “bubble up”)
• πομφολῠγοπάφλασμα n (pompholŭgopáphlasma, “bubble-splash”)
• πομφολῠγόω (pompholŭgóō, “cause to bubble”)
• πομφολῠγώδης (pompholŭgṓdēs, adjective)
• πομφολῠγωτός (pompholŭgōtós, adjective)
• πομφολύζω (pompholúzō, “I bubble”)
• πομφός m (pomphós, “blister”)

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

• Hofmann, J. B. (1949) “πομφόλυξ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎ (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

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

Ancient Greek πομφόλῠξ

• IPA^(key): /poɱˈfolix/

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

1. (medicine, formal) blister

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