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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“to shout, call”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛ̂ː.rys/ → /ˈʝi.rys/ → /ˈʝi.ris/
Noun
γῆρῠς • (gêrus) f (genitive γήρυος); third declension
- voice, speech
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “γῆρυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γῆρυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γῆρυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- γῆρυς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “γῆρυς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “γῆρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.