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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Furnée connects the word with ἰξύς (ixús, “loins”) assuming a common Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /is.kʰí.on/ → /isˈçi.on/ → /isˈçi.on/
Noun
ῐ̓σχῐ́ον • (iskhíon) n (genitive ῐ̓σχῐ́ου); second declension (Epic, Ionic, Attic, Koine)
- (anatomy) hip-joint
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 5.5:
- τῷ βάλεν Αἰνείαο κατ’ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς
ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται, κοτύλην δέ τέ μιν καλέουσιν- tôi bálen Aineíao kat’ iskhíon, éntha te mēròs
iskhíōi enstréphetai, kotúlēn dé té min kaléousin
- 1924 translation by Murray
- on the hip, where the thigh turns in the hip joint,—the cup, men call it
- area around the hip-joint; haunch
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἰσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰσχίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰσχίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰσχίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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