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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
Ptyxis, gen.sg. ptyxis (s.f.III), abl.sg. ptyxe: vernation, q.v. or prefoliation, (Jackson; Stearn); “the disposition of a single leaf in the bud” (WIII) [> Gk. ptuxis [ptyxis],-eOs (s.f.III), a folding; a fold; ”the act of folding, from ptyssein, to fold” (WIII)];

NOTE: related to ptycho-, in Gk. comp., referring to folds, pleats, clefts or deep grooves’ (Stearn).

    singular                    plural
Nom. ptyxis                     ptyxes
Gen. ptyxis (ptyxeos)           ptyxium
Dat. ptyxi                      ptyxibus
Acc. ptyxem (ptyxim, ptyxin)    ptyxes
Abl. ptyxe (ptyxi)              ptyxibus
After Stearn’s paradigm for basis,-eOs (s.f.III).

NOTE: in Merriam-Webster dictionary ptyxes is the plural of the noun ptyxis.

NOTE: also declined like ‘caulis,-is,’ q.v.

Apparently first used by Asa Gray, 1870’s (OED).

 

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