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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to André, νέπιτα (népita) was taken from Latin nepeta (“catmint”). Furnée considers the origin of the Latin word to be Ancient Greek *νεπετα (*nepeta). Altogether, these variants point to Pre-Greek origin. Note the Pre-Greek suffix *-ετ- (*-et-), *-ιτ- (*-it-) and the vowel alternation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /né.pe.tos/ → /ˈne.pe.tos/ → /ˈne.pe.tos/
Noun
νέπετος • (népetos) m (genitive νεπέτου); second declension
- catmint (Nepeta cataria)
- Synonym: καλαμίνθη (kalamínthē)
Inflection
Further reading
- “νέπετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νέπετος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νέπετος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1010
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 34: “49 -ετ-ο-”