πάτελλα

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patella.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πάτελλα (pátellaf (genitive πατέλλης); first declension

  1. dish, patella
  2. food bank
  3. (Egypt, geography) basin
    • 150–200, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VI 9042, 2

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References

  • πάτελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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
  • Cervenka-Ehrenstrasser, Irene (2006) “Lexikon der lateinischen Lehnwörter in den griechischsprachigen dokumentarischen Texten Ägyptens mit Berücksichtigung koptischer Quellen. Eine Vorschau”, in Wolfgang Dahmen, Günter Holtus, Johannes Kramer, Michael Metzeltin, Wolfgang Schweickard, Otto Winkelmann, editors, Lexikalischer Sprachkontakt in Südosteuropa. Romanistisches Kolloquium XII (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik; 447) (in German), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, pages 340–341
  • πάτελλα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften