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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόνις (kónis, “dust”) + ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to raise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.ni.or.tós/ → /ko.ni.orˈtos/ → /ko.ni.orˈtos/
Noun
κονιορτός • (koniortós) m (genitive κονιορτοῦ); second declension
- cloud of dust
- Synonyms: κονίσαλος (konísalos), φορυτός (phorutós), χοῦς (khoûs), ψαύριος (psaúrios)
- c. 2nd century BCE, Sibylline Oracles, Book III, 800–802:
καὶ κονιορτὸς ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν προφέρηται πρὸς γαῖαν ἅπαν καί οἱ σέλας ἠελίοιο ἐκλείψει κατὰ μέσσον ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ- and a cloud of dust will be cast from heaven over all the earth, and the light of the sun will be eclipsed in the middle of the sky
- dirt, sweepings
- dirty fellow
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κονιορτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κονιορτός 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