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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Nehring, it is Pre-Greek. Because of the typical leaves, Strömberg thinks of θρῖον (thrîon, “fig leaf”) and compares οἶδαξ (oîdax, “unripe figs”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰrîː.daks/ → /ˈθri.ðaks/ → /ˈθri.ðaks/
Noun
θρῐ́δᾰξ • (thrĭ́dăx) f (genitive θρῐ́δᾰκος); third declension
- lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
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Further reading
- “θρίδαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρίδαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρίδαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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