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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the word seems Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -ινθος (-inthos). In any case, compare κηρός (kērós, “wax; honeycomb”), also believed to be a substrate word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛ̌ː.rin.tʰos/ → /ˈci.rin.θos/ → /ˈci.rin.θos/
Noun
κήρῐνθος • (kḗrinthos) m (genitive κηρῐ́νθος); second declension
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- Synonyms: ἐρῐθᾰ́κη (erithákē), σᾰνδᾰρᾰ́κη (sandarákē)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “κήρινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κήρινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κηρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 689–690