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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”). Could also be of Semitic origin, compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܩܘܪܐ (qarqūrāʾ, “boat”), reshaped under the influence of κέρκος (kérkos) and οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). Compare also Latin cercūrus, Old Armenian կուր (kur).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kér.kuː.ros/ → /ˈcer.ku.ros/ → /ˈcer.ku.ros/
Noun
κέρκουρος • (kérkouros) m (genitive κερκούρου); second declension
- boat, small ship
- type of fish
Inflection
References
- “κέρκουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέρκουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέρκουρος 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
- Boisacq, Émile (1916) “κέρκουρος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 441–442