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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), the same root of κείρω (keírō, “to cut”) and κορμός (kormós, “trunk”). Perhaps the original meaning of this word was "haircut at the temples".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kór.sɛː/ → /ˈkor.si/ → /ˈkor.si/
Noun
κόρση • (kórsē) f (genitive κόρσης); first declension
- (anatomy) temple, side of the forehead
- Synonym: κρόταφος (krótaphos)
- (in the plural) hair on the temple
- (architecture) part of a temple gate
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Further reading
- “κόρση”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόρση”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόρση 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