μιλφός

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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The etymology is not clear, but Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

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μῐλφός (milphósm (genitive μῐλφοῦ); second declension

  1. one who suffers from the falling of the eyelashes

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • μιλφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μίλφοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 952