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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Beekes calls connections to δρίος (dríos, “thicket”), in the sense of "swelling," a "mere guess." Pokorny suggests the latter connection and also compares δριμύς (drimús, “piercing, sharp”), Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split open”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drîː.los/ → /ˈðri.los/ → /ˈðri.los/
Noun
δρῖλος • (drîlos) m (genitive δρῑ́λου); second declension
- verpus
Inflection
References
Further reading
- “δρῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δρῖλος 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
- Petersson, Herbert (1926) “Armenische Etymologien”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 43, number 1, page 78 of 69–79