πτέρνη

English (LSJ)

(Hp.Art.3, Epid.5.48, Phot.), later πτέρνᾰ (Lyc.500, LXX Ge.3.15, etc.), ἡ,

   A heel, Il.22.397, Hp.Il.cc., Arist.HA494b7; under part of the heel, A.Ch.209 (pl.); heel-bone, Gal.2.776, al.: prov., εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε D.7.45.    2 hoof, LXX Jd.5.22.    3 heel of a shoe, Herod.7.21, Phryn.PSp.69B.    4 footstep, LXX Ca.1.8.    II metaph., foot or lower part of anything, πύργων Lyc.442; τῆς μηχανῆς Plb.8.6.2; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath.11.474f (but, waist of a ship, Hero *Stereom.2.52).    2 butt-end of the ἀγκών of a torsion-engine, Ph.Bel.59.30,66.2; of a surgical machine, Orib.49.4.9,al.    III ham (mock Epicism formed from Lat. perna), Batr.37; f.l. for πέρνα in Aët.15.15, Paul.Aeg.7.17.74 (πέρνα correctly in 4.32).

French (Bailly abrégé)

ion. c. πτέρνα.

English (Autenrieth)

heel, Il. 22.397†.

Spanish

talón del pie

Greek Monolingual

(I)
ἡ, Α
βλ. πτέρνα.———————— (II)
ἡ Α
βλ. πέρνα.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

πτέρνη -ης, ἡ, later πτερνᾰ [~ πέρνα] hiel.