φυσητήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φῡσάω (phūsáō, “to blow”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰyː.sɛː.tɛ̌ːr/ → /ɸy.siˈtir/ → /fi.siˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰyː.sɛː.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰy.se̝ˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸy.siˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fy.siˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.siˈtir/

Noun

φῡσητήρ • (phūsētḗr) m (genitive φῡσητῆρος); third declension

1. blowpipe or tube, an instrument for blowing
2. bellows
3. one who blows a pipe or bellows
4. kind of whale
5. blowhole or spiracle of whales

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φῡσητήρ ho phūsētḗr	τὼ φῡσητῆρε tṑ phūsētêre	οἱ φῡσητῆρες hoi phūsētêres
Genitive	τοῦ φῡσητῆρος toû phūsētêros	τοῖν φῡσητήροιν toîn phūsētḗroin	τῶν φῡσητήρων tôn phūsētḗrōn
Dative	τῷ φῡσητῆρῐ tôi phūsētêri	τοῖν φῡσητήροιν toîn phūsētḗroin	τοῖς φῡσητῆρσῐ / φῡσητῆρσῐν toîs phūsētêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν φῡσητῆρᾰ tòn phūsētêra	τὼ φῡσητῆρε tṑ phūsētêre	τοὺς φῡσητῆρᾰς toùs phūsētêras
Vocative	φῡσητήρ phūsētḗr	φῡσητῆρε phūsētêre	φῡσητῆρες phūsētêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ὁ φῡσητήρ; τοῦ φῡσητῆρος (Attic)

Descendants

• Greek: φυσητήρας (fysitíras)
• → Latin: physetēr
  • → Italian: fisetere m
  • → Translingual: Physeter m

Further reading

• “φυσητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φυσητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φυσητήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette