ψάκελον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from the same Pre-Greek root of σφάκελος (sphákelos, “middle finger”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psá.ke.lon/ → /ˈpsa.ce.lon/ → /ˈpsa.ce.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psá.ke.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpsa.ke.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpsa.ce.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpsa.ce.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpsa.ce.lon/

Adjective

ψάκελον • (psákelon)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: μέγα (méga, “big, large”).

References

• “ψάκελον”, 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: ψ