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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dwey-mós, from *dwey- (“fear”). Compare δέος (déos), Latin dirus, Old Armenian երկն (erkn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deː.mós/ → /ðiˈmos/ → /ðiˈmos/
Noun
δειμός • (deimós) m (genitive δειμοῦ); second declension
- fear, terror
Inflection
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References
- “δειμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δειμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δειμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δειμός 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