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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καρώ (karṓ, “caraway”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.rɔː.tón/ → /ka.roˈton/ → /ka.roˈton/
Noun
κᾰρωτόν • (karōtón) n (genitive κᾰρωτοῦ); second declension
- carrot
Declension
Descendants
- Latin: carōta (from the plural, reinterpreted as a feminine singular)
Further reading
- καρωτόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “καρωτόν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “καρωτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press