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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ψίω (psíō, “I feed on”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psǐːks/ → /psiks/ → /psiks/
Noun
ψῑ́ξ • (psī́x) m or f (genitive ψῑχός); third declension
- crumb, morsel, bit (especially of bread)
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ ψῑ́ξ
ho, hē psī́x
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τὼ ψῖχε
tṑ psîkhe
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οἱ, αἱ ψῖχες
hoi, hai psîkhes
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τοῦ, τῆς ψῑχός
toû, tês psīkhós
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τοῖν ψῑχοῖν
toîn psīkhoîn
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τῶν ψῑχῶν
tôn psīkhôn
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τῷ, τῇ ψῑχῐ́
tôi, têi psīkhí
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τοῖν ψῑχοῖν
toîn psīkhoîn
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τοῖς, ταῖς ψῑξῐ́ / ψῑξῐ́ν
toîs, taîs psīxí(n)
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τὸν, τὴν ψῖχᾰ
tòn, tḕn psîkha
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τὼ ψῖχε
tṑ psîkhe
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ψῖχᾰς
toùs, tā̀s psîkhas
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ψῑ́ξ
psī́x
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ψῖχε
psîkhe
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ψῖχες
psîkhes
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “ψίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψίξ 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