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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Some have tried a connection with Old Armenian ներկ (nerk, “color”), deriving both from a Proto-Indo-European root *(s)negʷro-, because often the deer and the hind are called after their variegated color (compare πρόξ (próx, “roe deer”) and περκνός (perknós, “dusky”)). Others derive it from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.brós/ → /neˈβros/ → /neˈvros/
Noun
νεβρός • (nebrós) m (genitive νεβροῦ); second declension
- fawn, young deer
- Synonym: ἐλλός (ellós)
- type of cowardice
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)
- ἐλλός (ellós, “fawn”)
- κεμάς (kemás, “two-year-old deer”)
- πρόξ (próx, “roe deer”)
Further reading
- “νεβρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νεβρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νεβρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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