νεῦρον

English (LSJ)

τό,

   A sinew, tendon, once in Hom., in pl., of the tendons at the feet, περὶ δ' ἔγχεος αἰχμῇ νεῦρα διεσχίσθη Il.16.316, cf. Hp.Art. 11, etc.; τὰ ν. οἷα ἐπιτείνεσθαι καὶ ἀνίεσθαι Pl.Phd.98c; ν. ἐξ ἰνῶν [γίγνεται] Id.Ti.82c; σάρκες καὶ ν. ibid.; σύγκειταί μου τὸ σῶμα ἐξ ὀστῶν καὶ ν. Id.Phd.98c, cf. Arist.HA515a27, al.: used adjectivally, ib.540a18 (s.v.l.).    b ν. ἔναιμον vein, Hp.Liqu.2, cf. Ruf. Onom.208.    2 metaph., in pl., nerves, sinews, τὰ ν. τῆς τραγῳδίας, of the lyric odes, Ar.Ra.862; ὑποτέτμηται τὰ ν. τῶν πραγμάτων Aeschin.3.166; ἕως ἐκτέμῃ ὥσπερ ν. ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς Pl.R.411b; ἐκτ. τὰ ν. [οἴνου] Plu.2.692c; also πόλις ἥτις μὴ νεῦρ' ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας ἔχει D.19.283: less freq. in sg., τὸ ν. ὑποκόπτοντες τῆς δυνάμεως J.BJ 5.1.4; χρήματα ν. πολέμου App.BC4.99.    II cord made of sinew, e. g. bowstring, Il.4.122; string fastening the head of the arrow to the shaft, ib.151; also δέρματα συρράπτειν νεύρῳ βοός Hes.Op.544; cord of a sling, X.An.3.4.17, Q.S.11.112; bowstring, Ach.Tat.3.8.    2 = νευρά 3, Plb.4.56.3, App.Mith.107.    3 string of a lyre, AP9.584.9, Luc.DMar.1.4.    III in pl., fibres of plants, Pl.Plt. 280c.    IV nerves, as organs of sensation, first in Erasistr. ap. Gal.5.602; ν. πρακτικά, αἰσθητικά, etc., Ruf.Onom.211; ν. κινητικά, προαιρετικά, Gal.2.613, 739; ν. ἀκουστικόν Alex.Aphr.Pr.1.71, cf. Gal.2.831, Plot.4.3.23.    V penis, Pl.Com.173.19, Gal.8.442. (Cf. Skt. snā´van-, Avest. snāvar[schwa], 'sinew', 'bond'.)