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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably of Afroasiatic origin.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǎu̯.ka.lis/ → /ˈβaɸ.ka.lis/ → /ˈvaf.ka.lis/
Noun
βαύκᾰλῐς • (baúkalis) f (genitive βαυκάλῐδος); third declension
- vessel for cooling wine or water
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Varia Africana. (1918). United States: African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, p. 303
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
- βαύκαλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βαύκαλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “βαύκαλις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “βαύκαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “βαύκαλις”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 303