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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Reminiscent of δοῦπος (doûpos), but further details are unknown. No doubt of Pre-Greek origin, with variation between voiced and unvoiced stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ktý.pos/ → /ˈkty.pos/ → /ˈkti.pos/
Noun
κτῠ́πος • (ktúpos) m (genitive κτῠ́που); second declension
- crash, bang, din
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κτύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κτύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κτύπος 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
Noun
κτύπος • (ktýpos) m (plural κτύποι)
- Alternative form of χτύπος (chtýpos)
Declension