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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimate origin is unknown. Formation like δέπαστρον (dépastron) and κάναστρον (kánastron). The suffix is Pre-Greek.
Some authors argue that this is possibly a Mediterranean Wanderwort, and relate it with Sardinian golosti, colostri (“holly”) and Basque gorosti (“holly”).[1] See those for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛ̌ː.las.tros/ → /ˈci.las.tros/ → /ˈci.las.tros/
Noun
κήλᾰστρος • (kḗlastros) f (genitive κηλᾰ́στρου); second declension
- holly (Ilex aquifolium)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Agud, Manuel, Tovar, Antonio (1992) “Materiales para un diccionario etimológico de la lengua vasca (XV)”, in Anuario Del Seminario De Filología Vasca «Julio De Urquijo» (in Spanish), volume 26, number 3, Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 825–826
Further reading
- “κήλαστρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κήλαστρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κήλαστρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 685