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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈβro.sis/ → /ˈvro.sis/
Noun
βρῶσῐς • (brôsis) f (genitive βρώσεως); third declension
- the act of eating (food); eating a meal
- food that is eaten, or is to be eaten
- rust, corrosion
Inflection
Further reading
- “βρῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βρῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βρῶσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βρῶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βρῶσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βρῶσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1035 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.