STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: πτερύγιον

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πτερῠγ-ιον, τό,

diminutive of πτέρυξ, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 615b30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+].

__II anything like a wing.

__II.1 in plural, fins of fish, [[[prev. work] 489b24, 504b30, “IA” 714a11 ] Refs]; of the tail-flaps of a lobster, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 490a3, compare 525b27, “PA” 684a13, “GA” 720b12 ] Refs]; of certain sea-slugs, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 532b22, 24 ] Refs]; fins of the sepia and other cuttle-fish, πτερύγι᾽.. σηπίας ὠπτημένα [[ 4th c.BC: Sotades Comicus 1.16, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 187.3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 524a31, “PA” 685b16. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

__II.2 horns of the horned owl, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 597b22. ] Refs]

__II.3 end or tip of the rudder, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.90 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of a pole, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]

__II.4 in a building, turret or battlement, or (as others) pointed roof, peak, [[NT.Luke.4.9; compare πτέρυξ 11.7. ] NT]

__II.5 flap, fold [[compare (πτέρυξ 11.4), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 802a39, LXX.Num. 15.38, LXX.Ruth.3.9, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.62 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; flap of a cuirass, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 31.8; π. κρανῶν “IG” 22.1424a.399 (_plural_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

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__II.6 in the body, part of the shoulderblade, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.177 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the ear, parts joining the temples,[[ [prev. work] 85, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; of the nose, parts joining the cheeks, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.80, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.71, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 11.12. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]

__II.7 in Medicine texts, disease of the eye when a membrane grows over it from the inner corner, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.20, 1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 7.7.4, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.108, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.732. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__II.8 fleshy excrescence on the nails, [[ 1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 6.19.1, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.110, 7th c.AD: Paulus Aegineta Medicus 6.85. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]

__II.9 plural,= του ={πνεύμονος τοῦ λοβοῦ τὰ ἄκρα}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]

__II.10 plural, flanges holding the projector of a torsion-engine, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 54.23; on a κέστρος 11, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 27.11.4. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]