πτερύγιον

πτερῠγ-ιον, τό,

• Dim. of πτέρυξ, Arist. HA 615b30.
• • II anything like a wing.
  • • 1 in pl., fins of fish, ib. 489b24, 504b30, IA 714a11; of the tail-flaps of a lobster, Id. HA 490a3, cf. 525b27, PA 684a13, GA 720b12; of certain sea-slugs, Id. HA 532b22, 24; fins of the sepia and other cuttle-fish, πτερύγιʼ . . σηπίας ὠπτημένα Sotad.Com. 1.16, cf. Alex. 187.3, Arist. HA 524a31, PA 685b16.
    • 2 horns of the horned owl, Id. HA 597b22.
    • 3 end or tip of the rudder, Poll. 1.90; of a pole, Hsch.
    • 4 in a building, turret or battlement, or (as others) pointed roof, peak, Ev.Luc. 4.9; cf. πτέρυξ 11.7.
    • 5 flap, fold (cf. πτέρυξ II 4), Arist. Aud. 802a39, LXX Nu. 15.38, Ru. 3.9, Poll. 7.62; flap of a cuirass, Aen.Tact. 31.8; π. κρανῶν IG 2(2).1424a.399 (pl.).
    • 6 in the body, part of the shoulder-blade, Poll. 2.177; of the ear, parts joining the temples, ib. 85, Hsch.; of the nose, parts joining the cheeks, Poll. 2.80, Sor. 1.71, Gal. UP 11.12.
    • 7 Medic., disease of the eye when a membrane grows over it from the inner corner, Hp. Prorrh. 2.20, Cels. 7.7.4, Dsc. 1.108, Gal. 7.732.
    • 8 fleshy excrescence on the nails, Cels. 6.19.1, Dsc. 1.110, Paul.Aeg. 6.85.
    • 9 pl., = τοῦ πνεύμονος τοῦ λοβοῦ τὰ ἄκρα, Hsch.
    • 10 pl., flanges holding the projector of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 54.23; on a κέστρος II, Plb. 27.11.4.

πτερύγιον, τό, dim. von πτέρυξ, kleiner Flügel, Pol. 27.9.4. – Fischflosse, Arist. H.A. 1.5, 2.13. – Ein Fehler des Auges, wenn sich aus der Karunkel im innern Augenwinkel ein Fell über das Auge zieht ; – auch das lieberwachsen des Fleisches über die Nägel der Finger und Zehen, bes. der großen Zehe, Medic. – Wie πτερόν, ein Teil des Tempels, die Zinne, NT, Matth. 4.5 Luc. 4.9 ; Hesych. erklärt ἀκρωτήριον.

πτερύγιον Dim. of πτέρυξ, Arist.

• • IIthe wing of a building, a turret or pinnacle, NTest.