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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, a compound of αὖος (aûos, “dry”) and an element "-χμ-" from the word for earth (see χθών (khthṓn, “ground, soil”)). A similar formation can be found in νεοχμός (neokhmós, “new”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /au̯kʰ.mós/ → /aɸxˈmos/ → /afxˈmos/
Noun
αὐχμός • (aukhmós) m (genitive αὐχμοῦ); second declension
- drought, dearth
- squalor, as effect of drought
- dryness, meagreness (of style)
- thirst
Inflection
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Further reading
- “αὐχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐχμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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