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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel, flay”), like λέπω (lépō, “to skin, flay”) and λεπίς (lepís, “flake, scale”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ̌ː.pɛː/ → /ˈlo.pi/ → /ˈlo.pi/
Noun
λώπη • (lṓpē) f (genitive λώπης); first declension
- covering, robe, mantle
Inflection
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Further reading
- “λώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λώπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λώπη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λώπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λώπη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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