πτερύγιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Dim. of [[πτέρυξ]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>615b30</span>. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[anything like a wing]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> in plural, [[fins]] of fish, ib.<span class="bibl">489b24</span>, <span class="bibl">504b30</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IA</span>714a11</span>; of the [[tail-flaps]] of a lobster, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>490a3</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">525b27</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PA</span>684a13</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">GA</span>720b12</span>; of certain [[sea-slugs]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>532b22</span>, <span class="bibl">24</span>; [[fins]] of the sepia and other cuttle-fish, πτερύγι' . . σηπίας ὠπτημένα <span class="bibl">Sotad.Com.1.16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Alex.187.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>524a31</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PA</span>685b16</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[horns]] of the horned owl, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>597b22</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[end]] or [[tip]] of the rudder, <span class="bibl">Poll.1.90</span>; of a pole, Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> in a building, [[turret]] or [[battlement]], or (as others) [[pointed roof]], [[peak]], Ev.Luc.4.9; cf. [[πτέρυξ]] 11.7. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[flap]], [[fold]] (cf. [[πτέρυξ]] 11.4), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Aud.</span>802a39</span>, <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Nu.</span> 15.38</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ru.</span>3.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.7.62</span>; [[flap]] of a cuirass, <span class="bibl">Aen.Tact.31.8</span>; π. κρανῶν <span class="title">IG</span>22.1424a.399 (pl.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> in the body, [[part of the shoulderblade]], <span class="bibl">Poll.2.177</span>; of the ear, [[parts joining the temples]], ib.<span class="bibl">85</span>, Hsch.; of the nose, [[parts joining the cheeks]], <span class="bibl">Poll.2.80</span>, <span class="bibl">Sor.1.71</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>11.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> Medic., disease of the eye when a [[membrane grows over it from the inner corner]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Prorrh.</span>2.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Cels.7.7.4</span>, Dsc.1.108, Gal. 7.732. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> [[fleshy excrescence]] on the nails, <span class="bibl">Cels.6.19.1</span>, Dsc.1.110, <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg.6.85</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> pl.,= του = [[πνεύμονος τοῦ λοβοῦ τὰ ἄκρα]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">10</span> pl., [[flanges]] holding the projector of a torsion-engine, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>54.23</span>; on a κέστρος ''ΙΙ'', <span class="bibl">Plb.27.11.4</span>.</span>