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Ancient Greek
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Etymology
Unexplained. Like σάκκος (sákkos, “sack”), probably foreign. The suffix -ακ- points to Pre-Greek origin. The word has also been compared with Lithuanian dundùlis (“puffed, big-bellied”), but this is only speculation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰy̌ː.la.kos/ → /ˈθy.la.kos/ → /ˈθi.la.kos/
Noun
θῡ́λᾰκος • (thū́lakos) m (genitive θῡλᾰ́κου); second declension
- sack, bag, used especially to carry meal in
- (zoology) sack in which the eggs of the tunny are enveloped
- (in the plural) loose trousers of Persians and other Orientals
- ball used for physical exercise
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Further reading
- “θύλακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύλακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύλακος 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