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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unclear; possibly either from Pre-Greek or a diminutive form of κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ker.kís/ → /cerˈcis/ → /cerˈcis/
Noun
κερκῐ́ς • (kerkís) f (genitive κερκῐ́δος); third declension
- weaver's shuttle
- any taper rod, of wood or ivory
- measuring rod, gnomon
- rod for stirring liquids
- iron dowel
- (architecture) wedge shaped division of the seats in the theatre
- (anatomy) tibia
- aspen (Populus tremula)
- Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
- Synonym: σημύδα (sēmúda)
- white bryony
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Further reading
- “κερκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κερκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κερκίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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