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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”), thus related to δῆλος (dêlos, “clear, visible”) and cognate to Latin dies
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /děː.lɛː/ → /ˈði.li/ → /ˈði.li/
Noun
δείλη • (deílē) f (genitive δείλης); first declension
- afternoon
Inflection
References
- “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δείλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δείλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “δείλη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011