μάρπτω

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word μάρπτω. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word μάρπτω, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say μάρπτω in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word μάρπτω you have here. The definition of the word μάρπτω will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofμάρπτω, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Within Greek, a connection may be drawn with some glosses found in Hesychius:

Nikolaev rejects a pre-Greek etymology and instead reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *merkʷ-, to which he also assigns Latin merx (goods, merchandise) (with delabialization before s generalized throughout its paradigm) and Tocharian A märk- (to take away).[1] Additionally assignable to this root would be Sanskrit मृच् (mṛ́c, snare) Sanskrit मर्चयति (marcáyati, seize, grasp, take)

Pronunciation

 

Verb

μᾰ́ρπτω (márptō)

  1. to take hold of, catch, grasp
  2. to lay hold of, seize, overtake

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nikolaev, Alexander (2021) “Etyma Graeca II”, in Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology, number 25, Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 953–976

Further reading