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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian, even though the exact word remains unclear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lá.siː.ris/ → /kaˈla.si.ris/ → /kaˈla.si.ris/
Noun
κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐς • (kalásīris) f (genitive κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐος); third declension
- long Egyptian garment, with tassels or fringe at the bottom
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Further reading
- “καλάσιρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καλάσιρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καλάσιρις 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