Ancient Greek

Noun

πτέρυξ • ‎(ptérux) f ‎(genitive πτέρυγος); third declension

1. wing
2. (in the plural) feathers
3. (in the plural) fins
4. (poetic) flight
5. Anything which resembles a wing: rudder, oar
6. The flaps at the bottom of armour
7. The edge of a sword or axe
8. earlobe
9. shoulder blade

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: πτέρυγα ‎(ptéryga)

References

• πτέρυξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πτέρυξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πτέρυξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πτέρυξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πτέρυξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πτέρυξ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4420”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flap idem, page 325.
  • pinion idem, page 614.
  • wing idem, page 981.