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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of πτύσσω (ptússō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ptýks/ → /ptyks/ → /ptiks/
Noun
πτύξ • (ptúx) f (genitive πτῠχός); third declension (chiefly in the plural)
- fold (in cloth etc.)
- plate (of metal, leather etc.)
- leaf (of a writing tablet etc.)
- side of a hill, cleft, glen, corrie
Declension
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