πέμφιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly a Pre-Greek word, together with πομφός (pomphós, “blister”) and πομφόλυξ (pomphólux, “bubble”). They might be onomatopoeic in origin; compare similar expressions for swelling, like Lithuanian pampti (“to swell”), pempùs (“fat-bodied”), pumpùlis (“roundish, thick-bellied thing”). Compare also βέμβιξ (bémbix, “spinning top”) and βόμβος (bómbos, “humming, buzzing”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pém.pʰiks/ → /ˈpem.ɸiks/ → /ˈpem.fiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pém.pʰiks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpem.pʰiks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpem.ɸiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpem.fiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpem.fiks/

Noun

πέμφῐξ • (pémphix) f (genitive πέμφῑγος); third declension

1. breath, blast
2. ray, sunbeam

   Synonym: ἀκτίς (aktís)

3. drop (of water or blood)

   Synonyms: ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás), ψιάς (psiás)

4. cloud, rain cloud
5. pustule or part surrounding a pustule

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πέμφῐξ; τῆς πέμφῑγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέμφῐξ hē pémphix	τὼ πέμφῑγε tṑ pémphīge	αἱ πέμφῑγες hai pémphīges
Genitive	τῆς πέμφῑγος tês pémphīgos	τοῖν πεμφῑ́γοιν toîn pemphī́goin	τῶν πεμφῑ́γων tôn pemphī́gōn
Dative	τῇ πέμφῑγῐ têi pémphīgi	τοῖν πεμφῑ́γοιν toîn pemphī́goin	ταῖς πέμφῑξῐ / πέμφῑξῐν taîs pémphīxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πέμφῑγᾰ tḕn pémphīga	τὼ πέμφῑγε tṑ pémphīge	τᾱ̀ς πέμφῑγᾰς tā̀s pémphīgas
Vocative	πέμφῐξ pémphix	πέμφῑγε pémphīge	πέμφῑγες pémphīges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πεμφιγώδης (pemphigṓdēs)

Descendants

• → English: pemphigus
• → Translingual: Pemphigus

Further reading

• “πέμφιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέμφιξ 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