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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like γρῖπος (grîpos, “creel, fishing basket”), from Pre-Greek, given the variation π/φ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrîː.pʰos/ → /ˈɣri.ɸos/ → /ˈɣri.fos/
Noun
γρῖφος • (grîphos) m (genitive γρῑ́φου); second declension
- creel, trap for fish, fishing basket
Oppian,
Halieutica 3.80:
- τῶν τὰ μὲν ἀμφίβληστρα, τὰ δὲ γρῖφοι καλέονται,
- tôn tà mèn amphíblēstra, tà dè grîphoi kaléontai,
- (figuratively) riddle, enigma, anything intricate saying
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Greek: γρίφος (grífos) (learned)
Further reading
- “γρῖφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γρῖφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γρῖφος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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
- “γρῖφος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011