ἰσχίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Furnée connects the word with ἰξύς (ixús, “loins”) assuming a common Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /is.kʰí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /isˈkʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /isˈçi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /isˈçi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /isˈçi.on/
Noun
ῐ̓σχῐ́ον • (iskhíon) n (genitive ῐ̓σχῐ́ου); second declension (Epic, Ionic, Attic, Koine)
- (anatomy) hip-joint
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.5:
- τῷ βάλεν Αἰνείαο κατ’ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς
ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται, κοτύλην δέ τέ μιν καλέουσιν- tôi bálen Aineíao kat’ iskhíon, éntha te mēròs
iskhíōi enstréphetai, kotúlēn dé té min kaléousin
- 1924 translation by Murray
- [he smote Aeneas] on the hip, where the thigh turns in the hip joint,—the cup, men call it
- tôi bálen Aineíao kat’ iskhíon, éntha te mēròs
- τῷ βάλεν Αἰνείαο κατ’ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς
- area around the hip-joint; haunch
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῐ̓σχῐ́ον tò iskhíon |
τὼ ῐ̓σχῐ́ω tṑ iskhíō |
τᾰ̀ ῐ̓σχῐ́ᾰ tà iskhía | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̓σχῐ́ου toû iskhíou |
τοῖν ῐ̓σχῐ́οιν toîn iskhíoin |
τῶν ῐ̓σχῐ́ων tôn iskhíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῐ̓σχῐ́ῳ tôi iskhíōi |
τοῖν ῐ̓σχῐ́οιν toîn iskhíoin |
τοῖς ῐ̓σχῐ́οις toîs iskhíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῐ̓σχῐ́ον tò iskhíon |
τὼ ῐ̓σχῐ́ω tṑ iskhíō |
τᾰ̀ ῐ̓σχῐ́ᾰ tà iskhía | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̓σχῐ́ον iskhíon |
ῐ̓σχῐ́ω iskhíō |
ῐ̓σχῐ́ᾰ iskhía | ||||||||||
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References
- “ἰσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰσχίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰσχίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰσχίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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
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