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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”) but there are no certain cognates; possibly Old Norse kleggi (“gadfly”) (see English cleg).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɔː.kʰǐːs/ → /ɣloˈçis/ → /ɣloˈçis/
Noun
γλωχῑ́ς • (glōkhī́s) f (genitive γλωχῖνος); third declension
- projecting point
- end of the yoke strap
- barb of an arrow
- point of a penknife
- (botany) stigma of saffron
Inflection
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References
- “γλωχίν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γλωχίν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γλωχίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γλωχίς 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
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1144”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1144