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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Foreign word of unknown origin. Maybe from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kar.kʰɛ̌ː.si.on/ → /karˈçi.si.on/ → /karˈçi.si.on/
Noun
κᾰρχήσῐον • (karkhḗsion) n (genitive κᾰρχησῐ́ου); second declension
- drinking-cup narrower in the middle than the top and bottom
- (nautical) masthead of a ship, through which the halyards worked
- triangular instrument used in carpentry
- cage or chamber in a torsion-engine
- crane for unloading ships
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Further reading
- “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καρχήσιον 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