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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare perhaps English tray, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree; wood”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drǒi̯.tɛː/ → /ˈðry.ti/ → /ˈðri.ti/
Noun
δροίτη • (droítē) f (genitive δροίτης); first declension
- tub, basin
- Synonyms: πύελος (púelos), σκάφη (skáphē)
- cradle
- coffin, bier
- a type of dance
5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Δ:δροίτη· (...) καὶ εἶδος ὀρχήσεως- droítē; (...) kaì eîdos orkhḗseōs
- droítē: (...) also, a type of dance
Declension
Further reading
- “δροίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δροίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δροίτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- δροίτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “δροίτη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011