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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Pre-Greek, with intensive reduplication.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâi̯.laps/ → /ˈlɛ.laps/ → /ˈle.laps/
Noun
λαῖλᾰψ • (laîlăps) f (genitive λαίλᾰπος); third declension
- whirlwind, tornado
Declension
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Further reading
- “λαῖλαψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαῖλαψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαῖλαψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λαῖλαψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λαῖλαψ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- 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