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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φῦσᾰ (phûsa, “bellows; bladder”), with a typical Pre-Greek suffix -ιγξ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰŷː.siŋks/ → /ˈɸy.siŋks/ → /ˈfi.siŋks/
Noun
φῦσῐγξ • (phûsinx) f (genitive φῡ́σῐγγος); third declension
- blister on the heel caused by a burn
- stalk of garlic or the outer coat of a clove or garlic
- particular kind of garlic
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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