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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Common use of Λιγυστικόν (Ligustikón), the neuter of Λιγυστικός (Ligustikós, “Ligurian”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.ʝys.tiˈkon/ → /li.ʝis.tiˈkon/
Noun
λιγυστικόν • (ligustikón) n (genitive λιγυστικοῦ); second declension
- (Koine, Byzantine) laserwort, Laserpitium
Declension
Descendants
- Latin: ligusticum (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Franco Montanari et al. (2015) Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, editors, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1239
- λιγυστικόν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “λιβυστικόν”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 714