σαύρα

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Beekes claims a Pre-Greek origin, due to the semantic category of lizards being "local substrate" and not being conceptualized among the Proto-Indo-Europeans.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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σαύρᾱ (saúrāf (genitive σαύρᾱς); first declension

  1. lizard

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαύρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1313

Further reading

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Greek

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Noun

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σαύρα (sávraf (plural σαύρες)

  1. lizard

Declension

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Further reading

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