Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ptýon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ftýon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ftíon/

Noun

πτύον • ‎(ptúon) n ‎(genitive πτύου); second declension

1. a winnowing shovel or fan
   • Homer, Iliad 13.588
   • Aeschylus, Fragments 208
2. (in Cyprus) a corn-measure; hence δίπτυον ‎(díptuon, “half a μέδινος”)

Inflection

See also

• πτέον ‎(ptéon)
• Latin vannus

References

• πτύον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πτύον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πτύον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πτύον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πτύον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4425”, 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.
  • fan idem, page 305.
  • winnowing-fan idem, page 982.
• LSJ 8th edition