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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually interpreted as derived from πάγος (págos, “crag, rock”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). However, this traditional etymology is unconvincing, like in σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”). More probably this is a Pre-Greek word. Furnée compares also φάγρος (phágros, “red porgy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pá.ɡuː.ros/ → /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/ → /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/
Noun
πᾰ́γουρος • (págouros) m (genitive πᾰγούρου); second declension
- crab
- Synonym: καρκίνος (karkínos)
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Descendants
Further reading
- “πάγουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάγουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάγουρος 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
Greek
Noun
πάγουρος • (págouros) m
- hermit crab
- (colloquial) crab
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