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Greek
Etymology
From an earlier unattested *γραυρος (*gravros) (with assimilatory deletion of the *ρ (*r)), from *γλαύρος (*glávros) (with assimilation *λ (*l) > *ρ (*r)), from Byzantine Greek ἔγγραυλος (éngraulos, “sardine”) (with metathesis of the λ (l) and ρ (r)), from Ancient Greek ἔγγραυλῐς (éngraulis, “European anchovy”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
γαύρος • (gávros) m (plural γαύροι)
- anchovy
- Synonym: αντζούγια (antzoúgia) (especially preserved and salted)
- (loosely) various small fish
- Coordinate terms: ("whitebait") μαρίδα (marída), ("whitebait") χαψιά (chapsiá), ("sardine") σαρδέλα (sardéla)
- a supporter of the Athens' Olympiakos football club.
- Carpinus betulus, the hornbeam, a European tree.
Declension
References
- ^ γαύρος - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias , 1st edition 1998, →ISBN, page 402.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔγγραυλῐς, -εως (> ETYM)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369