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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate to Latin corium (“leather”) and Proto-Celtic *korukos (“leather boat”), and ultimately a vriddhied derivative of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Nikolaev dismisses Beekes' claim that the word is from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ry.kos/ → /ˈko.ri.kos/
Noun
κώρῠκος • (kṓrukos) m (genitive κωρύκου); second declension
- leathern sack or wallet for provisions
- Synonym: ᾰ̓́δορος (ádoros)
- punchbag in the gymnasium
- leathern quiver
- (anatomy) scrotum
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Further reading
- “κώρυκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώρυκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κώρυκος 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