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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from τρίς (trís, “three”), because of the three lobes of the figleaf. According to Beekes, it is a Mediterranean word and compares the word with θρινία (thrinía, “vine in Crete”). Perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”), θρίδαξ (thrídax, “lettuce”) and θρῖναξ (thrînax, “trident”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰrîː.on/ → /ˈθri.on/ → /ˈθri.on/
Noun
θρῖον • (thrîon) n (genitive θρῑ́ου); second declension
- fig leaf
- Synonym: σῡκόφῠλλον (sūkóphullon)
- mixture of eggs, milk, lard, honey, cheese wrapped in figleaves
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Further reading
- “θρῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρῖον 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