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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian kꜣkꜣ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kí.ki/ → /ˈci.ci/ → /ˈci.ci/
Noun
κίκῐ • (kíki) n (genitive κίκεως); third declension
- castor oil
- croton (Ricinus communis)
- Synonym: κροτών (krotṓn)
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Further reading
- “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίκι 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