ἰξύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to ὀσφῦς (osphûs), δελφύς (delphús) and νηδύς (nēdús). Etymological relation with Latin īlia (“side of the body”) is improbable. Furnée proposed to connect ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”); if correct, the word is Pre-Greek because of the variation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ik.sy̌ːs/ → /ikˈsys/ → /ikˈsis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ik.sy̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ikˈsys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ikˈsys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ikˈsys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ikˈsis/

Noun

ἰξῡ́ς • (ixū́s) f (genitive ἰξῠ́ος); third declension

1. (anatomy) waist, loins

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἰξῡ́ς; τῆς ἰξῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰξῡ́ς hē ixū́s	τὼ ἰξῠ́ε tṑ ixúe	αἱ ἰξῠ́ες hai ixúes
Genitive	τῆς ἰξῠ́ος tês ixúos	τοῖν ἰξῠ́οιν toîn ixúoin	τῶν ἰξῠ́ων tôn ixúōn
Dative	τῇ ἰξῠ́ῐ̈ têi ixúï	τοῖν ἰξῠ́οιν toîn ixúoin	ταῖς ἰξῠ́σῐ / ἰξῠ́σῐν taîs ixúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἰξῡ́ν tḕn ixū́n	τὼ ἰξῠ́ε tṑ ixúe	τᾱ̀ς ἰξῦς / ἰξῠ́ᾰς tā̀s ixûs / ixúas
Vocative	ἰξῡ́ ixū́	ἰξῠ́ε ixúe	ἰξῠ́ες ixúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰξύα (ixúa)
• ἰξυόθεν (ixuóthen)

 

Further reading

• “ἰξύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰξύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰξύς 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