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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
This word is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). However, Beekes finds this improbable and asserts that the suffix "-αλ-" is typical of Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pás.sa.los/ → /ˈpas.sa.los/ → /ˈpa.sa.los/
Noun
πάσσᾰλος • (pássalos) m (genitive πασσᾰ́λου); second declension
- peg on which to hang clothes
- (figuratively) membrum virile
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Further reading
- “πάσσαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάσσαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάσσαλος 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