σκόλυβος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Like σκόλυμος (skólumos, “kind of thistle”), from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skó.ly.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.vos/
Noun
[edit]σκόλυβος • (skólubos)
- Hesychius gives the definition as: ἐσθιόμενος βολβός (esthiómenos bolbós, literally “edible tassel hyacinth”).
Further reading
[edit]- “σκόλυβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ