πτέρυξ

• πτερῠ́ξ (pterúx)

Connected with πτερόν (pterón, “feather”), but with an unexplained suffix.

πτέρῠξ • (ptérux) f (genitive πτέρῠγος); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) wing of a bird
   1. winged creature, bird
   2. (poetic) flight, augury, omen
2. anything like a wing:
   1. (zootomy, in the plural) fins, flippers

      Synonym: πτερῠ́γῐᾰ (pterúgia)

   2. (in the plural) feathery foliage
      1. ivy (Hedera helix)

         Synonym: ᾰ̓́σπληνος (ásplēnos)

   3. blade of the steering paddle; rudder, oar
   4. flap of a cuirass
   5. broad edge of a sword or axe; (zootomy) beak of a swordfish
   6. (anatomy) lobe of the lungs; earlobe
   7. point of a building
   8. front frame of a torsion engine
   9. (anatomy) shoulder blade
   10. (in the plural) The title of a poem whose lines form a pattern like wings.
   11. (in the plural) sails
3. anything that covers or protects like wings
   1. fence, wall

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.