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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from κνίζω (knízō, “scratch or gash”); yet the -ι- is long in this word, which may point to Pre-Greek origin, according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /knǐː.dɛː/ → /ˈkni.ði/ → /ˈkni.ði/
Noun
κνῑ́δη • (knī́dē) f (genitive κνῑ́δης); first declension
- stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
- Synonym: ἀκᾰλήφη (akalḗphē)
- sea anemone in the genus Actinia with a nettle-like sting
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Further reading
- “κνίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κνίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κνίδη 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