γάδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares the word with γάζας (gázas, “kind of fish”), assuming a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (genitive γάδου); second declension

1. cod (Gadus morhua)

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: γάδος (gádos)
• → Latin: gadus
• → Translingual: Gadus

Further reading

• “γάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γάδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γάδος 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

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA:

Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (plural γάδοι)

1. cod (marine fish of the family Gadidae)

Declension

Synonyms

• μπακαλιάρος m (bakaliáros)
• βακαλάος m (vakaláos)