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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from λέπας (lépas, “scaur, rock”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás), as the animal clings to the rock. Alternatively, it could derive from λέπος (lépos, “rind, husk”), λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.pás/ → /leˈpas/ → /leˈpas/
Noun
λεπᾰ́ς • (lepás) f (genitive λεπᾰ́δος); third declension
- limpet (gastropod of the family Patellidae)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “λεπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεπάς 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