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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Traditionally compared to similar words for "lentil", like Latin lens, Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) and German Linse. According to Beekes, the structure (suffix -υρ-) could point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lǎː.tʰy.ros/ → /ˈla.θy.ros/ → /ˈla.θi.ros/
Noun
λᾱ́θῠρος • (lā́thuros) m (genitive λᾱθῠ́ρου); second declension
- chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus)
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Further reading
- “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λάθυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λᾱ́θυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 822