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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, connected with the group of καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), with a Pre-Greek suffix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ké.lyː.pʰos/ → /ˈce.ly.ɸos/ → /ˈce.li.fos/
Noun
κέλῡφος • (kélūphos) n (genitive κελῡ́φους); third declension
- sheath, case
- (botany) pod, shell
- (zoology) envelop of a chrysalis
- eggshell
- (anatomy) hollow of the eye
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέλυφος 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
Greek
Noun
κέλυφος • (kélyfos) n (plural κελύφη)
- shell (of mollusks, crustaceans, etc)
- eggshell
- nutshell
- shell, casing (around instrument or mechanism)
Declension
Synonyms
- (eggshell, nutshell): τσόφλι n (tsófli)
- (seashell): κοχύλι n (kochýli)