φυσητήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φῡσάω (phūsáō, “to blow”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰyː.sɛː.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰy.se̝ˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸy.siˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fy.siˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fi.siˈtir/
Noun
φῡσητήρ • (phūsētḗr) m (genitive φῡσητῆρος); third declension
- blowpipe or tube, an instrument for blowing
- bellows
- one who blows a pipe or bellows
- kind of whale
- (zoology) blowhole or spiracle of whales
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φῡσητήρ ho phūsētḗr |
τὼ φῡσητῆρε tṑ phūsētêre |
οἱ φῡσητῆρες hoi phūsētêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φῡσητῆρος toû phūsētêros |
τοῖν φῡσητήροιν toîn phūsētḗroin |
τῶν φῡσητήρων tôn phūsētḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φῡσητῆρῐ tôi phūsētêri |
τοῖν φῡσητήροιν toîn phūsētḗroin |
τοῖς φῡσητῆρσῐ / φῡσητῆρσῐν toîs phūsētêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φῡσητῆρᾰ tòn phūsētêra |
τὼ φῡσητῆρε tṑ phūsētêre |
τοὺς φῡσητῆρᾰς toùs phūsētêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | φῡσητήρ phūsētḗr |
φῡσητῆρε phūsētêre |
φῡσητῆρες phūsētêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “φυσητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φυσητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φυσητήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τήρ
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
- grc:Zoology
- grc:Cetaceans