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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes suggests Pre-Greek.;[1] Liddell & Scott[2] link it to τρίβω
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰrǐːps/ → /θrips/ → /θrips/
Noun
θρῑ́ψ • (thrī́ps) m (genitive θρῑπός); ? declension
- woodworm
- (figuratively) skinflint, miser
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θρίψ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 557
- ^ “θρίψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
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