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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No cognates. Furnée showed that the variants point to a Pre-Greek origin; in addition, he compares words for "cup", like κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”), κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”), κόνδυ (kóndu, “cup”), κώθων (kṓthōn, “Laconian drinking vessel”), but also Etruscan 𐌒𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌌 (qutum, “kind of vessel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.deː.a/ → /ˈko.ði.a/ → /ˈko.ði.a/
Noun
κώδειᾰ • (kṓdeiă) f (genitive κωδείᾱς); first declension
- (botany) poppyhead, head of plants
- cup shaped like a poppyhead
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “κώδεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώδεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κώδεια 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