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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kormós, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), the same root of κείρω (keírō, “to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kor.mós/ → /korˈmos/ → /korˈmos/
Noun
κορμός • (kormós) m (genitive κορμοῦ); second declension
- (botany) trunk of a tree (with the boughs lopped off)
- Synonym: ξηνός (xēnós)
- log of timber
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κορμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κορμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κορμός 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós).
Noun
κορμός • (kormós) m (plural κορμοί)
- trunk of tree
- torso
- trunk (main part of body) of animal
- main body of something
- dessert in a log shape
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