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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare Old Armenian ծառ (caṙ), Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”). Seems to be a widespread borrowing from a substrate language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡér̥.r̥on/ → /ˈʝer.ron/ → /ˈʝe.ron/
Noun
γέρρον • (gérrhon) n (genitive γέρρου); second declension
- anything made of wicker-work
- an oblong shield, covered with ox-hide, such as the Persians used
- wattled screens or booths, used in the Athens marketplace
- the wicker body of a cart
- penthouse
- rod, stake, dart
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Further reading
- “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γέρρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γέρρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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