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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from λοπός (lopós, “shell, scale; bark”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás). Ultimately from the same root of λέπω (lépō, “to peel”). See also λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”) for a similar derivation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo.pás/ → /loˈpas/ → /loˈpas/
Noun
λοπᾰ́ς • (lopás) f (genitive λοπᾰ́δος); third declension
- flat dish, plate
- pan
- A plant disease
Inflection
Further reading
- “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λοπάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λοπάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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, page 871