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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate word, as hinted by the suffixes. Traditionally linked to Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“head, top, skull, horn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.rys/ → /ˈko.rys/ → /ˈko.ris/
Noun
κόρῠς • (kórus) f (genitive κόρῠθος); third declension
- helmet
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References
- 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
Further reading
- “κόρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόρυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόρυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόρυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.